Mahony, Pierce
Mahony, Pierce (1792–1853), solicitor, was born 19 December 1792, probably in Co. Kerry, son of Pierce Mahony (1750–1819), landowner and JP of Co. Kerry and Co. Limerick, and his second wife, Anna Maria, daughter of John Maunsell of…...
Malone, Anthony
Malone, Anthony (1700–76), lawyer and politician, was eldest son of Richard Malone (1674–1745), a noted lawyer, of Baronstown, Co. Westmeath, and his wife Marcella, daughter of Redmond Molady, nephew and heir of Sir Patrick Molady of Robertstown. The family were originally…...
Malone, Edmond
Malone, Edmond (1741–1812), lawyer and literary scholar, was born 4 October 1741 in Dublin, the second son of Edmond Malone of Shinglas, Co. Westmeath, MP for Granard (1761–6) and a judge in the court of common pleas, and his wife, Catherine (née Collier) of Ruckholt, Essex. He…...
Marsden, Alexander
Marsden, Alexander (1761–1834), barrister, East India Company agent, and government official, was born in Dublin, probably in October 1761 – he was baptised at St Michan's, Dublin, on 17 October – the youngest of the sixteen children of John Marsden (1716?–1801) and his second…...
Marshall, Robert
Marshall, Robert (1697–1774), attorney, MP, and judge, was born, perhaps in Monaghan, the only son of John Marshall, ‘gentleman’, of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, and Catherine (maiden name unknown). He was educated at Clonmel Free School, possibly Kilkenny College (1711), and…...
Martin, Richard
Martin, Richard (1754–1834), politician, animal rights campaigner, and duellist, was born 6 February 1754 at Ballinahinch castle, Dangan, Co. Galway, the eldest son of Robert Martin, a landowner, and his first wife, Bridget Martin (née Barnewall), daughter of the 11th Baron…...
Mason, William Shaw
Mason, William Shaw (c.1774–1853), administrator and statistician, was born in 1774 or 1775 in Dublin, where his father, Henry Mason, was a tax official; nothing is known of his mother. It is not known if he was related to the Monck Masons, his contemporaries. He was…...
Mayart, Sir Samuel
Mayart, Sir Samuel (1587–c.1647), lawyer, was the son of Gilbert Mayart of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, who was of Flemish origin. He matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, in May 1604, at the age of 17, and was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1607, called to the bar in 1614,…...
May, George Augustus Chichester
May, George Augustus Chichester (1816–92), lawyer and lord chief justice of Ireland, was born 16 August 1816 at Belfast, Co. Antrim, son of the Rev. Edward May, rector of Belfast, and Elizabeth May (née Sinclair). Educated at Shrewsbury School, he entered Magdalene College,…...
McCausland, Dominick
McCausland, Dominick (1806–73), writer on biblical prophecy, anti-Darwinian polemicist, racial theorist, and barrister, was born 20 August 1806 at Roe Park, Co. Londonderry. He was the third of the four sons of Marcus Langford McCausland, landowner, and his wife, Elizabeth (née…...
McCormack, Inez Jane Mary (née Murphy)
McCormack, Inez Jane Mary (née Murphy) (1943–2013), human rights activist and trade unionist, was born on 28 September 1943 in Belfast to Francis Cecil Murphy, a printer, and his wife, Margaret Murphy (née Sterritt), a nurse. She had one older brother, Terence (b. 1942). When Inez was…...
McGuckin (McGucken), James
McGuckin (McGucken), James (d. 1817), attorney, politician, and informer, of South Parade, Belfast, was a native probably of Antrim or Down. According to Bernard McAuley (1771–1863), a catholic priest who knew him well, his father was a catholic but he and his sisters belonged…...
Meade, Sir John
Meade, Sir John (1642–1707), lawyer and politician, was eldest son of Lt.-col. William Meade of Ballintober, Co. Cork, and his wife Elizabeth Travers. Educated at Kinsale, he entered TCD as a sizar on 28 May 1658, but took no degree.…...
Megaw, Arthur Stanley
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Meredith, James Creed
Meredith, James Creed (1875–1942), judge of the supreme court and writer, was born in Dublin, son of Sir James Creed Meredith, secretary of the Royal University of Ireland from 1880 to 1909, and his third wife, Nellie (née Graves). He had three brothers and two sisters. He began…...
Meredith (Meredyth), Robert
Meredith (Meredyth), Robert (a.1597–1668), chancellor of the exchequer in Ireland, was one of two sons of Richard Meredith (qv), Church of Ireland bishop of Leighlin and dean of St Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, and his…...
Methold (Methwold), Sir William
Methold (Methwold), Sir William (c.1560–1620), chief baron of the exchequer and chief justice of the king's bench, was eldest son of William Methold of Rushworth and South Pickenham, Norfolk, England, and his wife Susanna, daughter of George Alington of Swinhope,…...
Mitford, John Freeman
Mitford, John Freeman (1748–1830), Baron Redesdale , lord chancellor of Ireland, was born 18 August 1748 at Holborn, England, second son of John Mitford, barrister, and Philadelphia Mitford (née Reveley). Educated at Cheam School, Surrey, he entered Inner Temple and was called to…...
Molloy (Mulloy), Charles
Molloy (Mulloy), Charles (1646?–1690), legal writer, was born in Ireland, almost certainly in King's Co. (Offaly), probably in 1646. The O'Molloys had been one of the most prominent Gaelic families in the area, though much of their patrimony was lost by the early 1600s. Charles is…...
Moore, Robert Ross Rowan
Moore, Robert Ross Rowan (1811–64), political economist, was born 23 December 1811 in Dublin, the eldest son of William Moore, clergyman, of Garden Hill, Dublin, and his wife, Helena Moore (née Rowan). William Moore belonged to a branch of the Rowallan family who had settled in…...
Moore, Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill
Moore, Theodore Conyngham Kingsmill (1893–1979), lawyer and judge, was born 16 March 1893, the fourth child and only son of Canon Henry Kingsmill Moore, head of the Church of Ireland training college, and his wife, Constance Turpin. He had three older siblings, two of whom died in…...
Morris, William O'Connor
Morris, William O'Connor (1824–1904), judge and historian, was born 26 November 1824 in Kilkenny city, eldest son of the Rev. Benjamin Morris, clergyman, and his wife Elizabeth, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Morris Nugent O'Connor, a wealthy landowner from Gortnamona, King's…...
Murphy, Edward Sullivan
Murphy, Edward Sullivan (1880–1945), politician and lord justice of appeal for Northern Ireland, was born 3 February 1880 in Dublin, fourth son of James Murphy (1826–1901), MP and judge, and his wife Mary Josephine, eldest daughter of…...
Napier, Sir Joseph
Napier, Sir Joseph (1804–82), 1st baronet, judge and politician, was born 26 December 1804 in Belfast, son of William Napier, merchant (a descendant of a Scots gentry family, which included the inventor of logarithms), and his wife Rosetta (née Macnaghten). He was educated at the…...
Newenham, Thomas
Newenham, Thomas (1762–1831), economist and politician, was born 2 March 1762 at Coolmore House, Co. Cork, second son of Thomas Newenham, landowner, and his second wife, Elizabeth (née Dawson); his uncle was Sir Edward Newenham (…...