Quain, Richard
Quain, Richard (1800–87), surgeon, anatomical lecturer, and medical writer, was born in July 1800 at Fermoy, Co. Cork, third son of Richard Quain, gentleman, of Rathealy, Co. Cork, and his first wife (née Jones). His elder brother was Jones…...
Quin, Henry
Quin, Henry (1717–91), medical doctor and lapidary, was probably born in Dublin, one of two sons and one daughter of Thomas Quin (d. 1767), an eminent apothecary in the city, and Isabella Quin (née Brownrigg), daughter of Henry Brownrigg, of Annagh, Gorey, Co. Wexford. He was…...
Rambaut, Daniel Frederick
Rambaut, Daniel Frederick (1865–1937), doctor and Irish international rugby player, was born on 6 August 1865 at 3 Newtown Buildings, Waterford city, to Reverend Edmund Francis Rambaut, a Church of Ireland clergyman at Trinity, Waterford (who later moved to Carysfort church, Blackrock,…...
Reeves, Alice
Reeves, Alice (1874–1955), matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, was born in December 1874, daughter of the Rev. Charles Robert Reeves, clergyman, and Charlotte Reeves (née Haire). She was orphaned at age five or six and was raised by her aunt. When she was nineteen she began…...
Relhan, Anthony
Relhan, Anthony (1715–76), physician, was born in Dublin, son of Anthony Relhan, merchant, and Margaret Relhan (d. 1750). Educated at Dr Sheridan's school in Dublin, he entered TCD in November 1730, was made a scholar (1734) and…...
Renny, George
Renny, George (1757–1848), surgeon, was born 18 August 1757 at Falkirk, Scotland, son of George Renny, procurator-fiscal (and later baillie) of Falkirk, and Jean Renny (née Glasgow) of Ayrshire. He was educated at Edinburgh University and entered the army (1775) as a surgeon's mate in…...
Robinson, Bryan
Robinson, Bryan (c.1680–1754), medical doctor and scholar, was the only son of Christopher Robinson, doctor, of Dublin, and his wife Mary. A sister, Mary, died in infancy. Robinson graduated Bachelor of Medicine (1709) and Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Trinity College Dublin (…...
Robinson, Robert
Robinson, Robert (c.1713–1770), MD, state physician, and lecturer, was second of three sons of Bryan Robinson (qv), physician, and Mary Robinson of Mary St., Dublin. Robert entered TCD…...
Shaw, Sir Eyre Massey
Shaw, Sir Eyre Massey (1828–1908), chief of the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade, was born 17 January 1828 at Glenmore Cottage, near Ballymore, Cobh, Co. Cork, third son of Bernard Robert Shaw, merchant, of Shaw's Terrace and later Monkstown Castle, Cork, and his first wife, Rebecca…...
Simms, Mercy Felicia
Simms, Mercy Felicia (1915–98), social crusader, was born 3 March 1915 in a nursing home at 89 Lower Baggot St., Dublin, only child of Brian James Gwynn (1883–1972) of 48 Hollybrook Road, Clontarf, civil servant employed as assistant secretary in the labour exchange, and his wife…...
Sinclair, Elizabeth (Betty)
Sinclair, Elizabeth (Betty) (1910–81), trade unionist, was born 3 December 1910, into a protestant working class family in Hooker Street, Belfast. She was the third child of two sons and two daughters born to Joseph and Margaret Sinclair. Her father worked as a sawyer in Harland…...
Sloane, Sir Hans
Sloane, Sir Hans (1660–1753), physician-general, collector, and founder of the British Museum, was born 16 April 1660 at Killyleagh, Co. Down, youngest of seven sons (of whom only three survived infancy) of Alexander Sloane (d. 1666), receiver-general of taxes for Co. Down, and…...
Smiley, James Anderson
Smiley, James Anderson (1907–88), physician, was born 20 April 1907 at Castlewellan, Co. Down, the eldest of the four sons and one daughter of Samuel John Smiley, apothecary, and Mary Emma Smiley (née Anderson) of Lurgan. There was a strong medical tradition in the family, and of…...
Smithson, Annie M(ary) P(atricia)
Smithson, Annie M(ary) P(atricia) (1873–1948), author, nurse, republican, and trade unionist, was born Margaret Anne Jane Smithson 26 September 1873 at 22 Claremont Rd, Sandymount, Dublin, daughter of Samuel Raynor Smithson, a protestant, unionist barrister, and Margaret Louisa…...
Smyly, Henry Jocelyn
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Smyly, Sir William Josiah
Smyly, Sir William Josiah (1850–1941), obstetrician and gynaecologist, was born 14 November 1850 at 13 Merrion Sq., Dublin, third of six sons among eleven children of Josiah Smyly, FRCSI, and…...
Stack, Mary Meta (‘Molly’) Bagot
Stack, Mary Meta (‘Molly’) Bagot (1883–1935), founder of the Women's League of Health and Beauty, was born 12 June 1883, probably in Dublin, second daughter among four daughters and two sons of Charlotte Stack (née Thompson) (d. 1929) from Omagh, Co. Tyrone, and her husband…...
Stacpoole, Henry de Vere
Stacpoole, Henry de Vere (1863–1951), doctor and novelist, was born 9 April 1863 at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, the youngest child and only son of Rev. William Church Stacpoole, clergyman and director of Kingstown school, and his wife, Charlotte Augusta (née Mountjoy),…...
Stearne (Sterne), John
Stearne (Sterne), John (1624–69), founder of the (Royal) College of Physicians of Ireland, was born 26 November 1624 at Ardbraccan, Co. Meath, the eldest of three sons of John Stearne, of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, who came to Ireland as ‘officer’ to…...
Steevens, Grizel
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Steevens, Richard
Steevens, Richard (c.1654–1710), MD and benefactor, and Grizel (Grizell, Grissell) Steevens (c.1654–1747), heiress, were the twin children of John Steevens (d. 1682), a clergyman from the benefice of Cherill in Calne, Wiltshire, England, and Constance Steevens (…...
Stephenson, George Vaughan
Stephenson, George Vaughan (1901–70), rugby footballer and medical doctor, was born 22 December 1901 in Dromore, Co. Down, son of a Church of Ireland clergyman. Educated at Clanrye preparatory school in Belfast and at the RBAI…...
Stephens, William
Stephens, William (1696–1760), physician, was the son of Walter Stephens and the great-grandson of Colonel Richard Stephens, governor of Ross in Co. Wexford. He was schooled in Dublin and studied natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1715. In September 1716 he enrolled…...
Stewart, Henry Hutchinson
Stewart, Henry Hutchinson (1798–1879), doctor, hospital governor, and philanthropist, was born 23 June 1798 in Co. Wicklow, second son among six sons and three daughters of the Rev. Abraham Augustus Stewart (d. 1812), rector of Donabate, Co. Dublin, and chaplain to the lord lieutenant,…...
Stoker, Sir (William) Thornley
Stoker, Sir (William) Thornley (1845–1912), surgeon, was born 6 March 1845 in Marino Crescent, Clontarf, Co. Dublin, the eldest of five sons and two daughters of Abraham Stoker (1799–1876), a senior civil servant in Dublin Castle, and Charlotte Matilda Blake Stoker (née Thornley…...