O'Connor, Maurice
O'Connor, Maurice (d. 1740), lawyer and patron of Turlough Carolan (qv), was born in the late seventeenth century, eldest among three sons of John O'Connor Faly, attorney, of Gortnamona, King's Co. (…...
O'Donoghue, Nannie Power
Power O’Donoghue (née Lambert), Nannie (1843–1940), journalist, equestrian and writer was born 2 June 1843 and baptised as Ann Stewart Lyster Lambert in St Thomas Church of Ireland, Marlborough Street, Dublin. She was the youngest child of four daughters and one son of Charles Lambert,…...
O'Grady, Standish James
O'Grady, Standish James (1766–1840), 1st Viscount Guillamore , attorney general and judge, was born 20 January 1766 at Limerick, eldest of seven surviving sons of Darby O'Grady, landowner, of Mount Prospect, Co. Limerick, and Mary O'Grady (née Smyth). Educated locally, he entered…...
O'Hara, Kane (Kean
O'Hara, Kane (Kean ) (c.1712–1782), musician and librettist, was born at Templehouse, Co. Sligo, younger of two sons of Kean Og O'Hara, landowner (and high sheriff of the county in 1703), and his wife, the widow of Theobald Mathew. Educated locally, he entered…...
Osborne, John
Osborne, John (c.1641/3–1692), lawyer and politician, was probably the son and heir of Francis Osborne of Northambridge, Essex, England. A barrister of the Inner Temple, he was admitted to King's Inns in November 1661. The circumstances of his coming to Ireland are not…...
Overend, Andrew Kingsbury (King)
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Overend, George Acheson (Achie GAO)
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Overend, George Gordon (GGO)
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Overend, Thomas George
Overend, Thomas George (1846–1915), barrister and county court judge, was born 24 October 1846, the fifth son (one of his brothers died before the age of one) of James S. Overend (1808–53), engineer and contractor, a methodist of Tandragee, Co. Armagh, and his wife, Martha Best (…...
Parsons, Sir Lawrence
Parsons, Sir Lawrence (d. 1628), lawyer and planter, was a son of James Parsons of Leicestershire and his wife Catherine, sister of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (qv), secretary of state for Ireland (1580–1608). Lawrence was the youngest of…...
Patterson, Sarah (‘Saidie’)
Patterson, Sarah (‘Saidie’) (1904–85), trade unionist and peace activist, was born 25 November 1904 at 32 Woodvale St., Shankill Road, Belfast, eldest of three children of William Patterson (d. 1912), shipyard blacksmith, and Sarah Patterson (née Moore), both of whom were devout…...
Pennefather, Catherine
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Pennefather, Edward
Pennefather, Edward (1773–1847), barrister and judge, was born 22 October 1773 at Darling Hill, Knockevan, Co. Tipperary, second son of Major William Pennefather, MP for Cashel and formerly of the 13th Light Dragoons, and his wife Ellen, eldest daughter of the Ven. Edward Moore of…...
Pennefather, Richard
Pennefather, Richard (1773–1859), judge and chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, was born in August 1773 at Dublin, the eldest son of Major William Pennefather, of Knockeven (between Clonmel and Cashel), Darling Hill, Co. Tipperary (MP for Cashel in the Irish parliament), and…...
Pennefather, William
Pennefather, William (1816–73), evangelist, philanthropist, and hymn writer, was born 5 February 1816 at 5 Merrion Square, Dublin, the youngest son of the eight children of Richard Pennefather (qv), chief baron of the exchequer in…...
Pepys, Sir Richard
Pepys, Sir Richard (1588?–1659), barrister and chief justice of Ireland, was born in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, second son of John Pepys, of the Middle Temple, and Elizabeth Pepys (née Bendish). He was an uncle of Samuel Pepys, the noted seventeenth-century diarist. He…...
Perrin, Louis
Perrin, Louis (1782–1864), judge, was born 15 February 1782 probably in Waterford city, son of Jean-Baptiste Perrin (d. c.1820?), peripatetic émigré French teacher and writer. His Irish mother was named Daly. Between 1750 and 1814 his father turned out at least nine…...
Petrie, George
Petrie, George (1790–1866), artist, antiquary and collector of Irish traditional music, was born on 1 January 1790 (his gravestone has 1789) in Dame Street, Dublin, the only child of James Petrie, portrait painter, of Dublin, and Elizabeth Petrie (née Simpson) of Edinburgh, Scotland.…...
Phillips, Charles
Phillips, Charles (1786–1859), barrister and author, was born in Stephen St., Sligo, son of William Phillips, member of Sligo corporation and tax collector, and Elizabeth Phillips (née Johnson) of Co. Fermanagh. Educated locally at the school of the Rev. James Armstrong, rector of…...
Phipps, Sir Constantine
Phipps, Sir Constantine (1656–1723), lord chancellor of Ireland, was the third son of Francis Phipps of Reading in Berkshire. He was educated at the Free School in Reading, and in 1672 postponed a scholarship at St John's College, Oxford. Admitted to Gray's Inn in 1678, he was…...
Plunket, William Conyngham
Plunket, William Conyngham (1764–1854), 1st Baron Plunket , politician and lord chancellor of Ireland, was born 1 July 1764 at Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, the fourth and youngest son of Thomas Plunket, a presbyterian minister, and his wife, Mary Plunket (née Conyngham). In 1768…...
Pollock, Joseph
Pollock, Joseph (1752–1824), barrister, reformer, and polemicist, was born in Newry, Co. Down, the first son of James Pollock; Joseph was a cousin of John Pollock (qv) (d. 1825) of Newry. Admitted to the King's Inns and Middle Temple (…...
Ponsonby, Brabazon
Ponsonby, Brabazon (1679–1758), 2nd Viscount Duncannon , 1st earl of Bessborough , revenue commissioner and lord justice of Ireland, was eldest son of William Ponsonby (1659–1724), 1st Baron Bessborough and Viscount Duncannon, of Bessborough, Co. Kilkenny, and his wife Mary (d.…...
Ponsonby, George
Ponsonby, George (1755–1817), lord chancellor of Ireland, was born on 4 or 5 March 1755, the third, but second surviving, son of five sons and eight daughters born to John Ponsonby (qv) (1713–87), the speaker of the Irish house of…...
Porter, Robert Wilson
Porter, Robert Wilson (1923–2014), lawyer and politician, was born on 23 December 1923 in Derry city, eldest of four children of Joseph Wilson Porter, a joiner, and his wife Letitia (née Wasson). Throughout his life, he retained a strong attachment to his home city, which he always…...