MacNally, Leonard
MacNally, Leonard (1752?–1820), barrister, writer, United Irishman, and informer, was born in Dublin, the only son of William MacNally (d. 1756), a grocer. It seems that his mother brought him up with the support of his uncle, a merchant named Featherstone of St Mary's Lane. A…...
MacNeill, John Gordon Swift
MacNeill, John Gordon Swift (1849–1926), jurist and politician, was born 11 March 1849 in Dublin, only son of the Rev. John Gordon Swift MacNeill of Blackhall Street, and his wife Susan Colpoys (née Tweedy). He was descended from Godwin Swift, uncle and guardian of…...
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…...
Maple, William
Maple, William (d. 1762), chemist and one of the founding members of the Dublin Society, was born outside Ireland. He was middle-aged by the time he appears in Dublin in summer 1711 when he began his long association with the Trinity College Dublin (TCD) laboratory shortly before its…...
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…...
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…...
McCormack, Percy (Percival Davis)
McCormack, Percy (Percival Davis) (1929–2015), nuclear scientist, rocket engineer, pilot and physician, was born 23 October 1929 at the family home at 5 Garville Road, Rathgar, Dublin, the eldest of three children (he had a sister, Marion, and a brother, John) born to Thomas Henry…...
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…...
Molyneux (Molyneaux), William
Molyneux (Molyneaux), William (1656–98), scientist and political writer, was born in Dublin, 17 April 1656, eldest surviving son of Samuel Molyneux (1616–93), master gunner of Ireland and his wife, Margaret, daughter and co-heiress of William Dowdall, merchant of Dublin. His great-…...
Molyneux, Samuel
Molyneux, Samuel (1689–1728), scientist and politician, was born 18 July 1689, son of William Molyneux (qv) and his wife, Lucy Molyneux (née Domvile), at Chester. His mother died in 1691 and his father, who followed the…...
Molyneux, Sir Thomas
Molyneux, Sir Thomas (1661–1733), physician, natural historian, and antiquarian, was born 14 April 1661, near Gormond's (Ormond, Wormwood) Gate on Cook St., Dublin, second son among five sons and two daughters of Samuel Molyneux (d. 1693), lawyer, landowner, and army captain, and his…...
Monck, William Henry Stanley
Monck, William Henry Stanley (1839–1915), philosopher and astronomer, was born 21 April 1839 at Skeirke, Queen's Co. (Laois), third son of Thomas Stanley Monck, curate of Skeirke 1829–50, and Lydia Elinor Monck (née Kennedy). The family moved (1850) to Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny,…...