Brontë, Patrick
Brontë, Patrick (1777–1861), Church of England clergyman and writer, was born 17 March 1777, in Emdale, Drumballyroney, Co. Down, the eldest of the ten children of Hugh Prunty , or Brunty, a protestant farm labourer, and Eleanor or Alice (née McClory), born a catholic. He is known…...
Brooke, Henry
Brooke, Henry (1703–83), literary and political writer, was born in Ratavan, near Virginia, Co. Cavan, son of the Rev. William B. Brooke, wealthy rector of Killinkere and Mullagh, and Letrice Digby. His mother, possibly the second daughter of Dr…...
Brooke, Stopford Augustus
Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832–1916), clergyman and author, was born 14 November 1832 at ‘Glendoen’, near Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, eldest of eight children of the Rev. Richard Sinclair Brooke, the local curate, and Anna Brooke (née Stopford). When his maternal grandfather and…...
Brooke, William Graham
Brooke, William Graham (1834–1907), public servant, influential Church of Ireland layman, and promoter of education, was born 16 July 1834 in Wyton, Huntington, England, the second son of Rev. Richard Sinclair Brooke, curate of Glendoen, near Letterkenny, Co. Donegal (and from…...
Brown (Browne), Nicholas
Brown (Browne), Nicholas (1661?–1708), clergyman and writer, was the son of John Brown, gentleman, and Edith Brown (née Slacke), daughter of a clergyman; both parents were from Co. Fermanagh. He entered TCD (1678) and was awarded a…...
Browne, Peter
Browne, Peter (c.1665–1735), theologian, provost of TCD, and bishop of Cork, was born in Co. Dublin, son of Richard Browne. After schooling by Mr Crow, he entered TCD in 1682, graduating BA…...
Buchanan, Alan Alexander
Buchanan, Alan Alexander (1907–84), Church of Ireland archbishop, was born 23 March 1907 at Fintona, Co. Tyrone, son of Hugh Buchanan, solicitor, and Louie Donaldson of London. Educated at Masonic Boys' School, Dublin, and TCD, he…...
Buckworth, Theophilus
Buckworth, Theophilus (1580–1652), Church of Ireland bishop of Dromore, was baptised 8 January 1580, second son of Richard Buckworth and his wife Rose (maiden name unknown) of Wisbech, Cambs., England. He was a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1596, and graduated…...
Bulkeley, Lancelot
Bulkeley, Lancelot (1568/9–1650), Church of Ireland archbishop of Dublin, was the youngest son of Sir Richard Bulkeley of Beaumaris, Anglesey, and his second wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Needham of Shropshire. He entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1587, graduated…...
Bullock, Shan Fadh (John William)
Bullock, Shan Fadh (John William) (1865–1935), author, was born 17 May 1865 at Inisherk, Co. Fermanagh, eldest son among eleven children of Thomas Bullock (1840–1917), estate steward and farmer, and his wife Mary Wheery. Thomas Bullock worked on the Crom Castle demesne of John Crichton…...
Bunworth, Charles
Bunworth, Charles (c.1704–1772), clergyman, patron, and harper, was born in Newmarket, Co. Cork, second of at least three sons of Richard Bunworth, farmer, and Elizabeth Bunworth (née Philpot). He was educated by a family tutor, Mr Murdock, before entering…...
Burdy, Samuel
Burdy, Samuel (c.1758?–1820), Church of Ireland clergyman and writer, was born at Dromore, Co. Down, on 22 September, probably in the late 1750s, the only son of Peter Burdy, a merchant. He entered TCD as a sizar on 22 March…...
Burgh, William
Burgh, William (1741–1808), politician and religious polemicist, was the eldest son among eight children of Thomas Burgh (1696–1758) of Bert, Co. Kildare, landowner and MP for Lanesborough, Co. Longford (1727–58), and his wife Anne, daughter of Dives Downes, bishop of Cork and…...
Burke (de Burgo), Roland
Burke (de Burgo), Roland (d. 1580), catholic and protestant bishop, was the son of Redmond Burke of Tynagh, Co. Galway, and the grandson of Uilleag Burke (qv) (d. 1509), lord of the MacWilliam Uachtar. He…...
Burk, John Daly
Burk, John Daly (1772?–1808), author and radical, was possibly the son of James Burk, a protestant schoolmaster from Co. Cork, who may have been related to Edmund Burke (qv) (Augusta Chronicle, 11 Nov. 1809). In 1790 John was…...
Butcher, Samuel
Butcher, Samuel (1811–76), scholar and Church of Ireland bishop of Meath, the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Samuel Butcher and his wife, Elizabeth (née Herbert), of Cahirnane, Co. Kerry, was born at his father's home in Danesfort, Killarney, Co. Kerry. He was educated at home until…...
Butler, Edmund
Butler, Edmund (d. 1551), Roman catholic and Church of Ireland archbishop of Cashel, was an illegitimate son of Piers Butler (qv), 8th earl of Ormond and 1st earl of Ossory. He became a regular Augustinian canon and is said…...
Butler, John
Butler, John (c.1731–1800), 12th Baron Dunboyne , sometime Roman Catholic bishop of Cork, was born at Grange in the parish of Kiltinan, Co. Tipperary, third son of Edmund Butler, 8th Baron Dunboyne, and his wife, Anne Grace, widow of Richard Nagle. He was ordained in…...
Butler, Richard
Butler, Richard (1794–1862), clergyman and antiquarian, was born 14 October 1794 near Granard, Co. Longford, second son among six sons and a daughter of Richard Butler, clergyman in Burnchurch, Co. Kilkenny, and Martha Butler (née Rothwell). He attended Kilkenny College and…...
Butler, William Archer
Butler, William Archer (1812?–1848), clergyman and professor of moral philosophy, was second son of Pierce Archer Butler and Anna Maria Butler (née Gallwey); their seven children were brought up as Roman Catholics by their mother, though the father, who had several times been…...
Cambridge, Alice
Cambridge, Alice (1762–1829), preacher, was born 1 January 1762 in Bandon, Co. Cork, of a presbyterian mother and anglican father, of whom no further details are known. She was brought up in the established church. Though she completed her formal education at an early age, she…...
Campbell, Thomas
Campbell, Thomas (1733–95), Church of Ireland clergyman and miscellaneous writer, was born at Glack, Co. Tyrone, on 4 May 1733, the eldest son of the Rev. Moses Campbell (1695?–1772) and his wife, Elizabeth (née Johnston) of Tully, Co. Monaghan. He entered…...
Canning, George
Canning, George (1730?–71), writer, was eldest of three sons of Stratford Canning, who had an estate at Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, and his wife Letitia Newburgh. It is said that his father was ferociously strict; he disapproved of a youthful love affair in which George was involved…...
Carleton, William
Carleton, William (1794–1869), novelist and short-story writer, was born, probably on 4 March 1794, in Prillisk, near Clogher, Co. Tyrone, the youngest of fourteen children (eight of whom survived) of James Carleton, a catholic tenant farmer, and his wife Mary Kelly. James Carleton…...
Carpenter, Nathanael
Carpenter, Nathanael (1589–1628), scholar and clergyman, was born 7 February 1589 in Northleigh, Devon, England, where his father, John Carpenter (d. 1621), had a living as a clergyman. No details of his mother are known. He matriculated (June 1605) at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and…...