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…...
Porter, Sir Charles
Porter, Sir Charles (c.1640–1696), lord chancellor of Ireland, was born in England, son of Edmund Porter, prebendary of Norwich, and said to be descended from a long-established Cumbrian family. His mother was Mawry, daughter of Sir Charles Chibborne of Messing Hall,…...
Preston, William
Preston, William (1750–1807), lawyer, poet, and dramatist, was born in St Michan's parish, Dublin, the only son of William Preston, a gentleman, who disappeared about 1755, after setting out for India. William jnr attended Dr Campbell's school, Dublin, before entering as a…...
Price, Liam
Price, Liam (1891–1967), district justice and antiquary, was born 23 February 1891 and christened William George (‘Willie’), the only surviving son of George Price (d. 1915), QC (queen's counsel), of 84 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin, prominent in the legal profession as registrar of the…...
Pringle, (Alfred) Denis
Pringle, (Alfred) Denis (1902–98), judge, was born 16 May 1902 in the family home at 2 Herbert St., Dublin, elder of two sons of Robert William Pringle, a barrister who died young, and Alberta Pringle (née Henshaw). His brother, …...
Proby, John Joshua
Proby, John Joshua (1751–1828), 1st earl of Carysfort , lawyer, and politician, was born 12 August 1751, the only son of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort, and Elizabeth Proby (née Allen). He attended Westminster School and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1767, graduating…...
Radcliffe, John
Radcliffe, John (1765?–1843), lawyer, judge, PC, and author, was born in Co. Fermanagh, only son of Richard Radcliffe, clergyman, and his wife Christian, daughter of Robert Mason of Co. Galway and widow of Joseph Ormsby. After his father's…...
Radcliffe, Sir George
Radcliffe, Sir George (1593–1657), lawyer and royalist, was baptised 21 April 1593, the son of Nicholas Radcliffe of Overthorpe in the parish of Thornhill, Yorkshire, and Margaret Marsh of Darton, Yorkshire. After attending school in Oldham (1607–9), he matriculated at Oxford on 3…...
Reeves, William
Reeves, William (1815–92), Church of Ireland bishop, antiquary, and librarian, was born 16 March 1815 at his grandfather's house in Charleville, Co. Cork, eldest child among three sons and two daughters of Boles D'Arcy Reeves, solicitor, and his wife Mary (d. of cholera, 1832), daughter…...
Reid, Richard Tuohill
Reid, Richard Tuohill (1823–83), lawyer and academic, was the only surviving son of Herbert Reid, a Killarney merchant, and Catherine Reid (née Tuohill). His father died young and he entered TCD as a sizar in 1841; he was admitted as a…...
Reynell, Richard
Reynell, Richard (1625–99), politician and judge, was born in East Ogwell, Devonshire, England, second son of Sir Richard Reynell, knight, and his wife Mary (née Reynell). He entered the Middle Temple in 1642, but was not called to the English bar until 1653. He later moved to Ireland…...
Richey, Alexander George
Richey, Alexander George (1830–83), lawyer, historian, and editor, was born 22 October 1830 in Dublin, only son of Alexander Richey (d. 1852), land agent, of Mount Temple, Coolock, Co. Dublin, and his wife, Matilda (daughter of Dodwell Browne of Co. Mayo), aunt of the 3rd earl of…...
Ridgeway, William
Ridgeway, William (1765–1817), barrister and law reporter, was born in Dublin, eldest son of William Ridgeway, merchant, and Dorothy Ridgeway (née Tandy). Educated at TCD, he graduated BA (1787),…...
Robinson, Christopher
Robinson, Christopher (1712?–87), judge, was born in Dublin, the first of three sons of a Dublin physician, Bryan Robinson (qv). The second son was Robert Robinson (qv) the state physician…...
Roe, Helen Maybury
Roe, Helen Maybury (1895–1988), librarian and antiquary, was born 18 December 1895 in Mountrath, Queen's Co. (Laois), the only child of William Ernest Roe and Anne Roe (neé Lambert Shields). Her father's family had lived in the Mountrath area since the seventeenth century and her…...
Rogerson, John
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Ryves, Sir William
Ryves, Sir William (d. 1648), judge, was the sixth son of John Ryves of Blandford, Dorset, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Mervyn of Fonthill, Dorset. He entered the Middle Temple in 1593 and was called to the bar seven years later. In 1619 he appears as a bencher at…...
Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (‘Tom’)
Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (‘Tom’) (1882–1957), barrister-at-law, genealogist, registrar at the Office of Arms, and deputy Ulster King of Arms, was born 15 September 1882 at the Curragh camp, Co. Kildare, youngest among three sons (one of whom died in infancy) of the Rev. Franc Sadleir…...
Samuels, Arthur Warren
Samuels, Arthur Warren (1852–1925), lawyer, was born 19 May 1852 in Dublin, second son of Arthur Samuels, of Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, and Katherine Samuels (née Daly) of Mornington, Co. Meath. He was educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, and…...
Sarsfield, Dominick
Sarsfield, Dominick (d. 1636), 1st Viscount Sarsfield of Kilmallock , lawyer and judge, was third youngest son of Edmund Sarsfield, a Cork merchant, and Katherine, daughter of Piers Gould of Cork. Dominick entered Middle Temple in London in 1594, and despite his relatively humble…...
Saurin, William
Saurin, William (1757/8–1839), barrister and attorney general for Ireland, was born probably in the parish of Shankill, outside Belfast, second son of the Rev. James Saurin (d. 1772), vicar of Belfast 1747–72, and his wife Jane (d. 1760), daughter of…...
Scott, John
Scott, John (1739–98), 1st earl of Clonmell , lawyer, MP, and judge, was born 8 June 1739, third son of Thomas Scott, church of Ireland vicar of Urlings, Co. Kilkenny, afterwards of Modeshill and Mohubber, Co. Tipperary, and his wife Rachel, eldest daughter of Mark Prim of Johnswell…...