Butler, Pierce (1744–1822), soldier, planter, slaveholder, delegate to the constitutional convention and US senator, was born in Ballintemple House, Co. Carlow on 11 July 1744, the third son of Sir Richard Butler, 5th baronet of Cloughgrenan and member of the Irish parliament, and his…...
Megaw, Basil (1913–2002), archaeologist and folklife scholar, was born in Belfast on
22 June 1913, the third of four
sons of Arthur Stanley Megaw, solicitor and writer, and his wife (Helen Isabel) Bertha
(née Smith). Arthur Stanley Megaw (1873–1961) was a younger son of Robert Megaw…...
Nicholson, Ernest Wilson (1938–2013), biblical scholar, was born on 26 September 1938 in Portadown, Co. Armagh, the youngest of three children of Ernest Tedford Nicholson, a soldier and baker, and Veronica Muriel Nicholson. After attending Hart Memorial Primary School in Portadown, he…...
St George, Richard St George Mansergh (c.1752–98), landlord, artist
and soldier,
was born Richard St George Mansergh, the only son of James Mansergh, landowner and
soldier of Macrony Castle, Co. Cork, and his
second wife Mary, a natural daughter of Lieutenant-General…...