Browne, John Denis
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Browne, Robert Dillon
Browne, Robert Dillon (1809–50), repeal MP, was born in 1809, the only son of Arthur Browne, landowner of Turin Castle and Glencorrib, near Shrule, Co. Mayo and his wife Mary Kirwan. He was a member of the Neale branch of the Brownes, and a distant cousin of Lord Kilmaine. He was…...
Browne, Thomas Wogan
Browne, Thomas Wogan (1758?–1812), whig politician, was the elder son of Michael Browne (d. c.1778), a French army colonel with a modest property, Castle Browne, near Clane in Co. Kildare, and of his cousin and wife Catherine, daughter and (with her sister Frances) co-…...
Brownlow, William
Brownlow, William (1755–1815), landowner, banker, and MP, was born 1 September 1755, elder of two sons of William Brownlow (qv) of Lurgan, Co. Armagh, one of the largest landowners in Co. Armagh and MP for the county (1753–94), and…...
Brownlow, William
Brownlow, William (1726–94), MP and landowner, was born 10 April 1726, son of William Brownlow (1683–1739), landowner and MP, for Co. Armagh (1711–27), and Lady Elizabeth Brownlow of Co. Armagh, and grandson of Arthur Brownlow…...
Brown, Nicholas
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Brush, Edward James Augustus Howard (‘Peter’)
Brush, Edward James Augustus Howard (‘Peter’) (1901–84), army officer, farmer, and loyalist, was born 5 March 1901 at Fermoy, Co. Cork, only child of Major George Howard Brush of Co. Down (who later fought on the Somme as a colonel in the Inniskilling Fusiliers) and his wife May…...
Bulkeley, Sir Richard
Bulkeley, Sir Richard (1660–1710), politician and eccentric philanthropist, was born 17 August 1660 in Dublin. His great-grandfather was Archbishop Lancelot Bulkeley (qv), while his father, Richard Bulkeley (1634–85), MP for…...
Bunting, Ronald (‘Ronnie’)
Bunting, Ronald (‘Ronnie’) (1947–80), republican, was born into a middle-class Belfast protestant family. His father, Maj. Ronald Bunting, a close associate of…...
Burdy, Samuel
Burdy, Samuel (c.1758?–1820), Church of Ireland clergyman and writer, was born at Dromore, Co. Down, on 22 September, probably in the late 1750s, the only son of Peter Burdy, a merchant. He entered TCD as a sizar on 22 March…...
Burgh, Thomas
Burgh, Thomas (1744–1810), MP and administrator, was born in May 1744, second son among eight children of Thomas Burgh (1696–1758) of Bert, Co. Kildare, landowner and MP for Lanesborough, Co. Longford (1727–58), and his wife Anne, daughter of Dive Downes, bishop of Cork and Ross (…...
Burgh, Walter Hussey
Burgh, Walter Hussey (1742–83), politician and lawyer, was born 23 August 1742, the only son of Ignatius Hussey (d. 1743), barrister, of Donore, Co. Kildare, and his second wife, Elizabeth (1705–57), daughter of Thomas Burgh (1670–1730) of Oldtown, Co. Kildare, surveyor general of…...
Burgh, William
Burgh, William (1741–1808), politician and religious polemicist, was the eldest son among eight children of Thomas Burgh (1696–1758) of Bert, Co. Kildare, landowner and MP for Lanesborough, Co. Longford (1727–58), and his wife Anne, daughter of Dives Downes, bishop of Cork and…...
Burke, Edmund
Burke, Edmund (1730–97), politician and philosopher, was born 12 January 1730 (per the Gregorian calendar) in Dublin, second son among four surviving children of Richard Burke (d. 1761), an attorney of the court of exchequer, and his wife Mary (c. 1702–1770), fourth child and…...
Burke, John Bernard
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Burk, John Daly
Burk, John Daly (1772?–1808), author and radical, was possibly the son of James Burk, a protestant schoolmaster from Co. Cork, who may have been related to Edmund Burke (qv) (Augusta Chronicle, 11 Nov. 1809). In 1790 John was…...
Burrowes, Peter
Burrowes, Peter (1753?–1841), barrister and politician, was born at Portarlington, Queen's Co., the first son of Thomas Burrowes, whose family was long established there. He entered TCD (1772), graduated …...
Burton, Benjamin
Burton, Benjamin (a.1665–1728), banker and politician, was third son of Samuel Burton of Buncraggy, Co. Clare, and Margery Burton (née Harris). He was attainted by the Jacobites in 1689, was appointed sheriff of Dublin 19 October 1694, and in 1700 founded ‘Burton's bank’ in…...
Burton, Benjamin
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Burton, William Henry
Burton, William Henry (1739–1818), landowner and MP, was born 16 July 1739, probably at Burton Hall, Co. Carlow, second son among four sons and two daughters of Benjamin Burton and Anne Burton (née Ponsonby). Benjamin Burton (1709–67), landowner and MP, was born 12 January 1709,…...
Bury, Charles William
Bury, Charles William (1764–1835), 1st earl of Charleville , developer of Tullamore and president of the RIA, was born 30 June 1764 in Dublin, the only son of John Bury of Shannongrove, Co. Limerick, and his wife, Catherine, daughter and co…...
Bushe, Charles Kendal
Bushe, Charles Kendal (1767–1843), lawyer, judge, MP, and political writer, was born 13 January 1767 at Kilmurry, near Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny, the only son of the Rev. Thomas Bushe of Kilmurry, rector of Gowran, Co. Kilkenny, and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork, and Catherine Bushe (née…...
Butcher, Samuel Henry
Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850–1910), scholar and politician, was born 16 April 1850 in Dublin, the elder son of Samuel Butcher (qv), clergyman, of Danesfort, Co. Kerry, and his wife, Mary (née Leahy), of South Hill, Killarney, Co. Kerry…...
Butler, Brinsley
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Butler, Humphrey
Butler, Humphrey (c.1700–1768), 1st earl of Lanesborough , landowner, politician, and freemason, was born c.1700, the eldest of four surviving sons of Brinsley Butler (d. 1735), 2nd Baron Lanesborough, who – known to …...