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, 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…...
Moryson, Fynes
Moryson, Fynes (1566–1630), secretary to Lord Mountjoy and writer on Ireland, was third surviving son of Thomas Moryson (d. 1591), of Cadeby, Lincolnshire, England, clerk of the pipe and MP (for Great Grimsby in the parliaments of 1572, 1584, 1586, and 1588–9), and his wife…...
Mossop, Henry
Mossop, Henry (c.1728–1774), actor and theatre manager, was born in Dublin, son of the Rev. John Mossop. In 1737 his father was appointed prebend of Kilmeen, Tuam, Co. Galway, but Henry remained in Dublin, where he was raised by his uncle, a bookseller. Educated at a…...
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…...
Norcott, William
Norcott, William (1773?–1820), barrister, satirist, and bon vivant, was eldest son of William Norcott of Charleville, Co. Cork, and Mary Norcott (née Knight). He entered TCD in July 1790, graduating BA…...
O Brien, Conor
O Brien, Conor (1880–1952), sailor and author, was born Edward Conor Marshall O'Brien on 3 November 1880 in Cahirmoyle, Co. Limerick, the son of Edward William O'Brien, JP, and Julia O'Brien (née Marshall). A grandson of…...
O'Connor, Maurice
O'Connor, Maurice (d. 1740), lawyer and patron of Turlough Carolan (qv), was born in the late seventeenth century, eldest among three sons of John O'Connor Faly, attorney, of Gortnamona, King's Co. (…...
O'Grady, Standish James
O'Grady, Standish James (1766–1840), 1st Viscount Guillamore , attorney general and judge, was born 20 January 1766 at Limerick, eldest of seven surviving sons of Darby O'Grady, landowner, of Mount Prospect, Co. Limerick, and Mary O'Grady (née Smyth). Educated locally, he entered…...
Osborne, John
Osborne, John (c.1641/3–1692), lawyer and politician, was probably the son and heir of Francis Osborne of Northambridge, Essex, England. A barrister of the Inner Temple, he was admitted to King's Inns in November 1661. The circumstances of his coming to Ireland are not…...
Otway, Caesar
Otway, Caesar (1780–1842), protestant clergyman, travel writer, and antiquary, was the elder son in the family of two sons and two daughters of Loftus Otway (1755–89), a merchant at Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and his wife Sarah, daughter of William Woodward of Cloughprior. Born in Co.…...
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain
Oulton, Walley Chamberlain (c.1765–c.1820), dramatist and theatre historian, was born in Dublin, son of Walley Oulton, a merchant, and his wife Catherine (née Walker). Very little is known of his life outside his work. Educated locally by Dr Thomas Ball (1718?–…...
Overend, Andrew Kingsbury (King)
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Overend, George Acheson (Achie GAO)
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Overend, George Gordon (GGO)
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Overend, Thomas George
Overend, Thomas George (1846–1915), barrister and county court judge, was born 24 October 1846, the fifth son (one of his brothers died before the age of one) of James S. Overend (1808–53), engineer and contractor, a methodist of Tandragee, Co. Armagh, and his wife, Martha Best (…...
Palliser, John
Palliser, John (1817–87), explorer, was born 29 January 1817 in Dublin, eldest son of Wray Palliser (1788–1863) of Derryluskan, Co. Tipperary, and Comeragh, Co. Waterford, JP and lieutenant-colonel of the Waterford Artillery Militia, and…...
Parke, Thomas Heazle
Parke, Thomas Heazle (1857–93), army surgeon and African traveller, was born 27 November 1857 at Clogher House, Kilmore, Co. Roscommon, second son among ten children of William Parke, a well-to-do farmer, and Henrietta Parke (née Holmes). His ancestors were of Kentish stock. Educated…...
Parsons, Sir Lawrence
Parsons, Sir Lawrence (d. 1628), lawyer and planter, was a son of James Parsons of Leicestershire and his wife Catherine, sister of Sir Geoffrey Fenton (qv), secretary of state for Ireland (1580–1608). Lawrence was the youngest of…...
Pennefather, Edward
Pennefather, Edward (1773–1847), barrister and judge, was born 22 October 1773 at Darling Hill, Knockevan, Co. Tipperary, second son of Major William Pennefather, MP for Cashel and formerly of the 13th Light Dragoons, and his wife Ellen, eldest daughter of the Ven. Edward Moore of…...
Pennefather, Richard
Pennefather, Richard (1773–1859), judge and chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland, was born in August 1773 at Dublin, the eldest son of Major William Pennefather, of Knockeven (between Clonmel and Cashel), Darling Hill, Co. Tipperary (MP for Cashel in the Irish parliament), and…...
Pepys, Sir Richard
Pepys, Sir Richard (1588?–1659), barrister and chief justice of Ireland, was born in Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, second son of John Pepys, of the Middle Temple, and Elizabeth Pepys (née Bendish). He was an uncle of Samuel Pepys, the noted seventeenth-century diarist. He…...
Perceval, Robert
Perceval, Robert (1756–1839), physician, chemist, traveller, and founding member of the RIA, was born 30 September 1756 in Dublin, third and youngest son of William Perceval, barrister, and his second wife, Elizabeth Perceval (née Ward; d.…...