Webb, Richard Davis
(1805–72), printer and philanthropist, was born in the Cornmarket, Dublin, where his parents had a linen business; he was eldest among seven sons of James Webb and Deborah Webb (née Forrest). The Webbs and Forrests were members of the Society of Friends;…...
Winter, Dan
(b. c.1730), founder of the ‘Orange Society’ and tenant farmer, was born at the hamlet of the Diamond in the townland of Grange Lower in the barony of Oneilland, near Loughgall, Co. Armagh. Little is known of his immediate ancestry, except that his antecedents…...