Mullen (Molines), Allen
Mullen (Molines), Allen (c.1653–1690), physician and anatomist, was born in the north of Ireland, son of Patrick Mullen of Ballyculter, Co. Down. He entered TCD in 1672, aged eighteen, and graduated…...
Myles, Sir Thomas
Myles, Sir Thomas (1857–1937), surgeon and nationalist, was born 20 April 1857 in Limerick city, second son of John Myles (d. 1871), merchant, and his second wife, Prudence (d. 1904), daughter of William Bradshaw of Kylebeg, Co. Tipperary. Educated at…...
Neville, William Cox
Neville, William Cox (c.1855–1904), rugby international, sports administrator, and pioneer obstetrician, was born c.1855 in Dundalk, Co. Louth, son of John Neville, civil engineer; nothing is known of his mother. Educated at Dundalk College, he studied medicine…...
Norman, Conolly
Norman, Conolly (1853–1908), psychiatrist, was born 12 March 1853 in Newtown Cunningham, Co. Donegal, fifth of six sons of Hugh Norman, rector of All Saints Church, and Anne Norman (née Ball). He was educated at home before studying medicine at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), the…...
O'Daly, John
O'Daly, John (1800–78), writer and publisher, was born 5 February 1800 in Fernane, Cappoquin, Co. Waterford, eldest among three sons and three daughters of Eamonn O'Daly and Brigid O'Daly (née Kyley). He was educated at a local hedge school before going to work, in 1826, for the…...
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…...
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…...
Pepyat, Jeremiah
Pepyat, Jeremiah (c.1683–1753?), printer and bookseller, was apprenticed to John North of Dublin in 1697 and on North's death that same year moved to Joseph Ray (qv), with whom he served seven years apprenticeship; nothing else is…...
Pepyat, Mary
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Pepyat, Sylvanus
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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.…...
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…...
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…...
Purefoy, Richard Dancer
Purefoy, Richard Dancer (1847–1919), obstetrician and gynaecologist, was born 4 August 1847 in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary, fourth son of Dr Thomas Purefoy (fl. 1839–69) and Alla Maria Purefoy (née Dancer). He was educated in Bective College, Dublin, and Raphoe Royal…...
Purser, John Mallet
Purser, John Mallet (1839–1929), physiologist and professor of medicine, was born 8 November 1839 in Dublin, eldest son among nine sons and two daughters of Benjamin Purser (1815–98), corn merchant, and Anne Purser (née Mallet). He was educated in private schools before studying…...
Quain, Jones
Quain, Jones (1796–1865), surgeon, medical writer, and professor of anatomy, was born in November 1796 at Mallow, Co. Cork, eldest son of Richard Quain of Rathhealy, gentleman, and his first wife (née Jones). His younger brother was Richard…...
Quain, Richard
Quain, Richard (1800–87), surgeon, anatomical lecturer, and medical writer, was born in July 1800 at Fermoy, Co. Cork, third son of Richard Quain, gentleman, of Rathealy, Co. Cork, and his first wife (née Jones). His elder brother was Jones…...
Quin, Henry
Quin, Henry (1717–91), medical doctor and lapidary, was probably born in Dublin, one of two sons and one daughter of Thomas Quin (d. 1767), an eminent apothecary in the city, and Isabella Quin (née Brownrigg), daughter of Henry Brownrigg, of Annagh, Gorey, Co. Wexford. He was…...
Rambaut, Daniel Frederick
Rambaut, Daniel Frederick (1865–1937), doctor and Irish international rugby player, was born on 6 August 1865 at 3 Newtown Buildings, Waterford city, to Reverend Edmund Francis Rambaut, a Church of Ireland clergyman at Trinity, Waterford (who later moved to Carysfort church, Blackrock,…...
Reeves, Alice
Reeves, Alice (1874–1955), matron of Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin, was born in December 1874, daughter of the Rev. Charles Robert Reeves, clergyman, and Charlotte Reeves (née Haire). She was orphaned at age five or six and was raised by her aunt. When she was nineteen she began…...
Relhan, Anthony
Relhan, Anthony (1715–76), physician, was born in Dublin, son of Anthony Relhan, merchant, and Margaret Relhan (d. 1750). Educated at Dr Sheridan's school in Dublin, he entered TCD in November 1730, was made a scholar (1734) and…...
Renny, George
Renny, George (1757–1848), surgeon, was born 18 August 1757 at Falkirk, Scotland, son of George Renny, procurator-fiscal (and later baillie) of Falkirk, and Jean Renny (née Glasgow) of Ayrshire. He was educated at Edinburgh University and entered the army (1775) as a surgeon's mate in…...