O'Brien, Murrough
O'Brien, Murrough (c.1616–1673), 6th Baron and 1st earl of Inchiquin , politician and soldier, was eldest of four sons and three daughters of Dermot O'Brien and Ellen O'Brien (née fitz Edmund FitzGerald of Cloyne). The son of fervent catholics, he was educated according…...
O'Brien, William
O'Brien, William (c.1640–92), 2nd earl of Inchiquin , army officer and colonial governor, was the eldest son of Murrough O'Brien (qv) (c.1614–1673), 6th Baron Inchiquin and 1st earl of Inchiquin, and his wife,…...
Olpherts, Sir William
Olpherts, Sir William (1822–1902), general, also known as ‘Hellfire Jack ’, was born 8 March 1822 at Dartry Lodge, Blackwaterstown, Co. Armagh, third son of William Olpherts, lawyer, and Rosanna Olpherts (née Macartney). Educated at Gracehill School in Ballymena and later the…...
O'Neill, Daniel
O'Neill, Daniel (c.1612?–1664), royalist politician and soldier, was the son of Con MacNiall MacBrian Faghartach O'Neill, lord of Clandeboye in Co. Antrim, and his wife Eilis, daughter of Art MacBaron O'Neill, older brother of Hugh O'Neill…...
O'Neill, John Bruce Richard
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Orpen, Charles Edward Herbert
Orpen, Charles Edward Herbert (1791–1856), surgeon and clergyman, was born 31 October 1791 in Cork, third son of the Rev. Francis Orpen (d. 1805), vicar of Kilgarven, Co. Kerry, rector of Dungourney, Co. Cork, and later rector of Douglas, Co. Cork, and his wife Susanna (d. March…...
Osborne, Jonathan
Osborne, Jonathan (1794–1864), physician, was born in Cullenswood House, near Ranelagh, Dublin, son of William Osborne, jeweller, and his wife Kezia (née Binns), daughter of John Binns (qv). He was educated by the Moravians before graduating…...
Pack, Sir Denis
Pack, Sir Denis (1775–1823), British army general, was born 7 October 1775 in Kilkenny city, younger son of Rev. Thomas Pack (1720?–1795), dean of Ossory, and Catherine Pack (née Sullivan), of St Andrew's parish, Dublin. In June 1790 he entered…...
Pakenham, William Lygon
Pakenham, William Lygon (1819–87), 4th earl of Longford , army officer, and politician, was born 31 January 1819 at Pakenham Hall, Co. Westmeath, second son of Thomas Pakenham, 2nd earl of Longford, and his wife Georgiana Emma Charlotte (d. 12 February 1880), fifth daughter of…...
Pantridge, Frank (James Francis)
Pantridge, Frank (James Francis) (1916–2004), pioneering cardiologist, was born 3 October 1916 in Sion Hill, a farm on the southern outskirts of Hillsborough, Co. Down, son of Robert James Pantridge (d. 1927), and his wife Elizabeth (née McCandless). Frank had at least a sister and a…...
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…...
Pennefather, John Lysaght
Pennefather, John Lysaght (1800–72), general, was born in Co. Tipperary, third son of the Rev. John Pennefather, DD, treasurer (1786–9) of Cashel cathedral and rector of St John's, Newport, Co. Tipperary, and Elizabeth Pennefather (née…...
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.…...
Persse, William
Persse, William (c.1728–1802), Volunteer leader, was elder of two sons of Robert Persse, of Roxborough, Co. Galway, and his wife Elizabeth (née Parsons) of Birr, King's Co. (Offaly). The family estate, acquired under the Stuarts by his great-great-grandfather Dean Dudley…...
Phillips, Sir Thomas
Phillips, Sir Thomas (c.1560–1636), English soldier and planter, was first son of William Phillips of London, one of the queen's customers of the wool, and his wife Joane Houghton of London. William died in 1590, leaving his heir a considerable estate in London, Middlesex…...
Ponsonby, Sir William
Ponsonby, Sir William (1772–1815), general, was born 13 October 1772, the second son of William Brabazon Ponsonby (qv), 1st Baron Ponsonby, and his wife Louisa (née Molesworth) (d. 1824), fourth daughter of Richard, 3rd…...
Porter, Robert Wilson
Porter, Robert Wilson (1923–2014), lawyer and politician, was born on 23 December 1923 in Derry city, eldest of four children of Joseph Wilson Porter, a joiner, and his wife Letitia (née Wasson). Throughout his life, he retained a strong attachment to his home city, which he always…...
Porter, Sir George Hornidge
Porter, Sir George Hornidge (1822–95), surgeon, was born 24 November 1822 at 15 Kildare St., Dublin, son of William Henry Porter, surgeon, and Jane Porter (née Hornidge). He was initially educated by private tutor before being indentured to the Dublin surgeon Josiah Smyly (November 1838…...
Power, James
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Power, John
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Power, Richard
Power, Richard (c.1630–1690), 1st earl of Tyrone , soldier and politician, was the eldest son (there was also a daughter) of John Power (c.1597–1666), 5th Baron Le Power and Coroghmore, of Curraghmore, Co. Waterford, and his wife, Ruth Power (née Pypho), daughter and…...
Power, Robert
Power, Robert (1794–1869), army officer and surveyor general of Van Diemen's Land, was born at Knockbrit, near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, second son of Edmund Power, merchant, JP, and editor of the unsuccessful Clonmel Gazette, and…...
Prendergast (Pendergrass), Sir Thomas
Prendergast (Pendergrass), Sir Thomas (1660?–1709), 1st baronet, army officer and Jacobite conspirator, was the eldest of three sons of Thomas Prendergast (d. 1725), a catholic landowner, of Croane, near Newcastle, Co. Tipperary, and his wife, Eleanor, daughter of David Condon.…...
Preston, Thomas
Preston, Thomas (1860–1900), physicist, was born 23 July 1860 at Ballyhagan, Kilmore, Co. Armagh, youngest among three sons of Abraham Dawson Preston, gentleman farmer, and his wife Anne (née Hall), and was educated at Armagh Royal School and …...
Price, Dorothy Stopford-
Price, Dorothy Stopford- (1890–1954), paediatrician, was born 9 September 1890 in Roebuck, Dublin, daughter of Jemmett Stopford, engineer, and Constance Stopford, whose father, Evory Kennedy, was master of the Rotunda Lying-In Hospital. Jemmett Stopford died from typhoid fever in 1902…...