Sutton, Thomas Manners
Sutton, Thomas Manners (1756–1842), 1st Baron Manners and lord chancellor of Ireland, was born 24 February 1756 in England, fifth son of Lord George Manners-Sutton and his first wife, Diana (née Chaplin); he was the cousin of Charles…...
Swiney (Swiny, Swinny, MacSwinny), Owen Mac
Swiney (Swiny, Swinny, MacSwinny), Owen Mac (1680–1754), playwright and theatre manager, was born near Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford. He appears to have joined the army as a young man but by spring 1703 was in London as associate of Christopher Rich at the Drury Lane theatre, where he…...
Taylor, John Sydney
Taylor, John Sydney (1795–1841), barrister and journalist, was born in Donnybrook, Dublin, son of John Taylor, artist. His father had been born John McKinley but had assumed the surname of Taylor, and was descended from Capt. David McKinley who had commanded a company of the…...
Taylor, William Desmond
Taylor, William Desmond (1872–1922), silent film director and celebrity murder victim, was born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner at Straw Hill House, Carlow town, Co. Carlow, on 26 April 1872, second child and oldest son among two daughters and three sons (one of whom died in infancy) of…...
Taylour, Frances Helen ('Fay')
Taylour, Frances Helen ('Fay') (1904–83), racing motorist and fascist, was born on 5 April 1904 at 11 Oxmanton Mall, Birr, King's County (Co. Offaly) to Herbert Fetherstonhaugh Taylour, formerly a lieutenant in the 3rd battalion of the Leinster regiment and then county inspector in the…...
Temple, Sir John
Temple, Sir John (1632–1705), lawyer and politician, was born in Blackfriars, London, second son of Sir John Temple (qv), master of the rolls for Ireland and author of The Irish rebellion (1646), and his wife Mary Hammond of…...
Thornberry, Cedric Henry Reid
Thornberry, Cedric Henry Reid (1936–2014), human rights lawyer, journalist and UN official, was born on 22 June 1936 at 14 Ardmore Park South, Belfast, the elder son of (William Henry) Laylee Thornbury, headmaster of Lurgan Model School, and his wife Lila (née Watson). Cedric was raised…...
Thrift, Harry
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Tighe, Edward
Tighe, Edward (1740–1801?), politician, lawyer, and writer, was the second son in the family of three sons and two daughters of William Tighe (1710–66) and his first wife Mary (d. 1748), eldest daughter of John Bligh, 1st earl of Darnley. William Tighe, born on 21 December 1710,…...
Tighe, William
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Tisdall, Robert Morton Newburgh (Bob)
Tisdall, Robert Morton Newburgh (Bob) (1907–2004), Olympic gold medallist, was born on 16 May 1907 at a nursing home in Hatton, a small town in up‑country Ceylon (latterly Sri Lanka), the only son and younger child of William Newburgh Tisdall, originally from Donemark, Bantry, Co. Cork…...
Toler, John
Toler, John (1741?–1831), 1st earl of Norbury , judge and MP, was second son of Daniel Toler of Beechwood, Co. Tipperary, and of the latter's second wife, Letitia, daughter of Thomas Otway, of Castle Otway, also of Co. Tipperary. After school in Kilkenny, he attended…...
Torrens, Robert
Torrens, Robert (1774–1856), judge, was born 14 October 1774, near Dungiven, Co. Londonderry, second son of the Rev. Thomas Torrens (1741–c.1780) of Londonderry and his wife Elizabeth (d. early 1780s), daughter of Sir Samuel Curry. It is likely that he accompanied his…...
Trant, Dominick
Trant, Dominick (1738–90), MP and lawyer, was born in Co. Kerry, second son of Dominick Trant, merchant, and his first wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Trant of Kerry, a distant relation. He entered TCD (August 1756) aged seventeen -…...
Vernon, John Fane
Vernon, John Fane (1849–1923), lawyer, land agent, JP, and governor of the Bank of Ireland, was born 5 July 1849 at Bingfield, Co. Cavan, the eldest of the two sons and one daughter of John Edward Vernon of Erne Hill, Co. Cavan, land agent,…...
Walker, Sir Samuel
Walker, Sir Samuel (1832–1911), 1st baronet, lord chancellor of Ireland, was born 19 June 1832 at Gore Port, Finea, Co. Westmeath, second of three sons of Capt. Alexander Walker, soldier, and Elizabeth Walker (née Elliott); his older brother was Gen.…...
Walsh, John Edward
Walsh, John Edward (1816–69), judge and writer, was born 12 November 1816 in Tolka, Co. Dublin, the only son of the Rev. Robert Walsh (qv) and his wife, Anne, daughter of John Bayley. He was educated at Bective School, Dublin, and…...
Walsh, Sir Nicholas
Walsh, Sir Nicholas (d. 1615), government official and judge, may have been a son of James Walsh, who was mayor of Waterford in 1547. He appears to have been a favourite of Thomas Butler (qv), earl of Ormond. Little is known of his…...
Weston, Robert
Weston, Robert (d. 1573), lord chancellor of Ireland, was the third son of John Weston of Lichfield, Staffordshire, and his wife Cecilia, who was a sister to Ralph Neville, 4th earl of Westmorland. Educated at Oxford, he was a fellow of All Souls college in 1536, and became dean…...
West, Trevor
West, Trevor (1938–2012), mathematician, politician and sportsman, was born on 8 May 1938 in Cork, the eldest of four sons of Timothy Roberts West, headmaster of Midleton College, Co. Cork, and Dorothy Trevor West (née McNeill), of Charleston, Ballinacurra, Co. Cork, who was CEO of…...
Whiteside, James
Whiteside, James (1804–76), lawyer and politician, was born 12 August 1804 at Delgany, Co. Wicklow, the second son of William Whiteside, minister of the Church of Ireland, and his wife, Anne (née Robinson). After William Whiteside's death in 1806 his family lived in reduced…...
White, Sir Nicholas
White, Sir Nicholas (d. 1593), lawyer and master of the rolls of Ireland, was born in Waterford city, son of James White of Waterford, who was steward to James Butler (qv), 9th earl of Ormond, and who died along with the 9th earl of food…...
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie
Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie (to which he, like his father and brother, later added ‘Wills ’) (1854–1900), playwright, poet, and prose writer, was born 16 October 1854 in his parents’ house, 21 Westland Row, Dublin, second son of Dr…...
Wilks, Robert
Wilks, Robert (c.1665–1732), actor and manager, was born in Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, second among three sons of Edward Wilks, pursuivant to a lord lieutenant; nothing is known of his mother. Educated locally, he was appointed a clerk in the office of Sir…...
Woffington Margaret (‘Peg’)
Woffington Margaret (‘Peg’) (c.1720–1760), actress, was born in Dublin, elder of two daughters of John Woffington, bricklayer, and his wife, Hannah. Her funeral monument at St Mary's church, Teddington, Middlesex, claims she was born 18 October 1720, though it is quite…...