Johnston, George
Johnston, George (1814–89), obstetrician, was born 12 August 1814 in Dublin, third of seven sons and two daughters of Andrew Johnston, MD, army surgeon and PRCSI (…...
Jones, Michael
Jones, Michael (d. 1649), parliamentarian soldier, was the younger son of Lewis Jones (qv), bishop of Killaloe, and his wife Mabel, daughter of Arland Ussher and sister of James Ussher (qv),…...
Kennedy, Evory
Kennedy, Evory (1806–86), obstetrician, was born 28 November 1806 at Carndonagh, Co. Donegal, ninth of ten sons and thirteenth of fourteen children of Rev. John Pitt Kennedy, rector of Donagh, and Mary Kennedy (née Cary). He was educated at Foyle College, Derry, and studied…...
Kennedy, John Pitt
Kennedy, John Pitt (1796–1879), army officer and agriculturist, was born 8 May 1796 at Donagh, Co. Donegal, fourth son of John Pitt Kennedy, rector of Donagh and later Balteagh, Co. Londonderry, and Mary Kennedy (née Cary). Educated at the Foyle Academy, Derry, he entered the…...
King, Cecil Harmsworth
King, Cecil Harmsworth (1901–87), publisher, was born 20 February 1901 at Poynter's Hall, Totteridge, Hertfordshire, England (home of his grandmother, Geraldine Harmsworth (qv)), second son and fifth child among seven children of…...
King, George
King, George (1771–1839), 3rd earl of Kingston, MP and militia colonel, was born 28 April 1771 in Chelsea, London, eldest son of Robert King (qv), 2nd earl of Kingston, and his wife Caroline, daughter and heir of Richard Fitzgerald of Mount…...
King, William Donald Aelian ('Bill')
King, William Donald Aelian ('Bill') (1910–2012), submarine captain and yachtsman, was born on 23 June 1910 in Church Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire, the only son of four children of William King, army officer, originally from Co. Galway, and his wife Georgina Marie (née Mackenzie…...
Kinnear, Nigel Alexander
Kinnear, Nigel Alexander (1907–2000), vascular surgeon, was born 3 April 1907 at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, the only son of James Alexander Kinnear, an accountant from Glenageary, and Margaret Kinnear (née Robinson). Educated at Kingstown grammar school (latterly Newpark…...
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert (1850–1916), 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome in Kent, field-marshal, was born 24 June 1850 at Gunsborough Villa, north of Listowel, Co. Kerry, second son of Lt-col. Horatio Herbert Kitchener and his first wife, Anne Frances (née Chevallier).…...
Knox, John
Knox, John (1758–1800), soldier and MP, was born 9 October 1758, second among seven sons of Thomas Knox (qv), 1st Viscount Northland, and his wife Anne née Vesey (d. 1803), second daughter of John, 1st Lord Knapton, and Elizabeth, eldest daughter of…...
Lake, Gerard
Lake, Gerard (1744–1808), British general and MP, was born 27 July 1744, possibly in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, second son of Launcelot Charles Lake (d. 1751), a Middlesex landowner, and Letitia Lake (née Gumley; d. 1760). Educated at Eton, he was commissioned ensign 9 May…...
Lambart, Charles
Lambart, Charles (1600–60), 1st earl of Cavan , landowner, military commander and politician, was born in Ireland about May 1600, the eldest son of Sir Oliver Lambart (qv), 1st Baron Lambart of Cavan, and his wife, Hester,…...
Lambart (Lambert), Sir Oliver
Lambart (Lambert), Sir Oliver (d. 1618), 1st Baron Lambart of Cavan , soldier and Irish administrator, was the son of Walter Lambart, of Preston, Yorkshire, England, and Rose, daughter of Sir Oliver Wallop and niece of Sir Henry Wallop…...
Lambert, Bob Robert James
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Lambert, Ham (Noel Hamilton)
Lambert, Ham (Noel Hamilton) (1910–2006), sportsman and veterinary surgeon, was born 10 June 1910 in Dublin, the eldest son of Robert James Hamilton (Bob) Lambert (see below), veterinary surgeon and cricketer, of Rathmines, Dublin, and his wife Nora (née Mitchell). He was educated in…...
Lambert, Thomas Drummond
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Lawrence, John Fortune
Lawrence, John Fortune (1833–97), sporting merchant and publisher, was born 13 January 1833 in Dublin, the eldest of six brothers and five sisters (three of each reaching adulthood) of William Lawrence (d. 1887), a clerk of works at the General Post Office (GPO), and his wife Elizabeth…...
Leared, Arthur
Leared, Arthur (1822–79), physician and traveller, was born in Wexford, son of Richard Leared, merchant. He graduated BA (1845), MB (1847), and MD (1860) from…...
Leathley, Joseph
Leathley, Joseph (d. 1757), ‘college binder’, printer, and bookseller, joined the Dublin printers, guild in July 1719, having been sworn a freeman of the city earlier in the year. He initially undertook a small number of joint publishing ventures with other members of the trade in…...
Leeper, Richard Robert
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Leslie, John
Leslie, John (1571–1671), ‘the fighting bishop’, was born 14 October 1571 in Crichie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, eldest son of George Leslie and his wife Marjory. Educated in Aberdeen, he travelled on the Continent (c.1589–c.1609), becoming fluent in French,…...
Lloyd, Edward
Lloyd, Edward (fl. 1700–1732), coffee house proprietor, publisher, and writer, was born in England and probably moved to Dublin in the 1690s. Nothing is known of his parents. A namesake, Edward Lloyd (d. 1713), founded (c.1688) Lloyd's coffee house in London, which…...
Long, Joseph John
Long, Joseph John (fl. 1891–1925), medical missionary, was the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman. After considering a missionary career overseas, in 1891 Long began work at the Dublin Medical Mission; this was an evangelical body which used the offer of free medical…...
Lucas, Charles
Lucas, Charles (1713–71), politician, physician, and writer, was born 16 September 1713, the younger son of Benjamin Lucas (d. c.1727) of the townland of Ballingaddy, Kilmanahan parish, Corcomroe, Co. Clare, and his wife, Mary (née Blood), also of Co. Clare. …...
Lumsden, Sir John
Lumsden, Sir John (1869–1944), physician and founder of the St John's Ambulance Brigade in Ireland, was born 14 November 1869 at the Mall, Drogheda, the son of John Lumsden, bank manager, and Florence Isabella Groom Lumsden (née McKearn). Educated at the High School in Dublin and…...