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.…...
Price, Ivon Henry
Price, Ivon Henry (1866–1931), policeman and army intelligence officer, was born 18 March 1866 in Lucan, Co. Dublin, the son of James Price, a chartered engineer, and his wife Fanny (née Peebles); the family were Church of Ireland. He was educated at St Columba's College,…...
Putland, George
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Ralegh, Sir Walter
Ralegh, Sir Walter (c.1554–1618), soldier and settler in Ireland, was one of the most famous and infamous Englishmen of the Elizabethan and Jacobean reigns. He was born at Hayes Barton, Devon, son of Walter Ralegh (d. 1581) and his third wife, Katherine, daughter of Sir…...
Rich, Barnaby (Barnabe)
Rich, Barnaby (Barnabe) (c.1542–1617), soldier and author, was probably a native of Essex, England. He became a soldier c.1563 and volunteered to serve with the huguenots in the French wars of religion, taking part in the siege of Le Havre in that same year.…...
Robertson, Francis
Robertson, Francis (1737/8–1791), soldier and nabob, was probably born at Churchill, parish of Gartan, Co. Donegal, of which his father, the Rev. John Robertson (d. 1756), was the incumbent. His mother's name is not recorded. He had two sisters, of whom the younger, Elizabeth, did…...
Robertson, Lawrence Alexander Durdin-
Robertson, Lawrence Alexander Durdin- (1920–94), Church of Ireland clergyman and priest of Isis, was born in London on 6 May 1920, the elder son of Manning Robertson (qv) and his wife Nora (née Parsons), a connexion of the earl of…...
Robinson, David Lubbock
Robinson, David Lubbock (1882–1943), British soldier, republican, senator, and hockey player, was born 11 August 1882 in Dublin, the second of the three sons and one daughter of John Joseph Robinson, Church of Ireland clergyman, and his wife, Henrietta Harriet, youngest daughter…...
Roe, Robin
Roe, Robin (1928–2010), army chaplain and rugby player, was born on 11 November 1928 at Skeirke (Skirk), Ballybrophy, Borris-in-Ossory, Co. Laois, the youngest of two sons and three daughters of William Henry Roe, a farmer, and his wife Anne (née Marshall). Educated at King's…...
Ross, Robert
Ross, Robert (1729–99), soldier and politician, was born at Rostrevor, Co. Down, eldest son of Robert Ross, MP for Carlingford, Co. Louth (1723–68), and later lord mayor of Dublin (1748–9), and his wife Anne. Deciding on a military career, he entered the army and purchased a…...
Sampson, George Vaughan
Sampson, George Vaughan (1763–1827), clergyman, linguist, survey writer, and agricultural and social reformer, was born in Co. Antrim, though his father, Arthur Sampson, was at the time rector of Templemore, Co. Londonderry. His mother was Mary Mercer, daughter of George Spaight…...
Sankey (Zanchie, Zanchy), Sir Hierome (Hierom, Jerome)
Sankey (Zanchie, Zanchy), Sir Hierome (Hierom, Jerome) (c.1621–c.1687), soldier and politician, was son of Richard Sankey, clergyman, of Endsworth, Shropshire, England, and his wife Anne Smolt of Burford Castle, Dorset. He matriculated as a sizar from Trinity…...
Somerville, Henry Boyle Townshend
Somerville, Henry Boyle Townshend (1863–1936), naval officer, hydrographer, and author, was born 7 September 1863 on his family's historic estate at Drishane, Castletownshend, near Castle Haven, Co. Cork, third son of Lt.-col. Thomas Henry Somerville (later high sheriff of Cork) and his…...
Southerne, Thomas
Southerne, Thomas (1660–1746), dramatist and soldier, was born 12 February 1660 at Oxmantown, Dublin, youngest child among four sons and two daughters of Francis Southerne, founder-member of the brewers' corporation of Dublin, and his wife Margaret. Educated at the free school in…...
Spence, Gusty (Augustus Andrew)
Spence, Gusty (Augustus Andrew) (1933–2011), loyalist paramilitary and community activist, was born on 28 June 1933 at Joseph Street in the Hammer area of the Shankill Road, west Belfast, sixth of seven children (five boys and two girls) of William Edward ('Ned') Spence, labourer and…...
Spender, Sir Wilfrid Bliss
Spender, Sir Wilfrid Bliss (1876–1960), army officer and civil servant, was born 6 October 1876 in London, the fourth son and fifth child of Edward Spender (1834–78), co-founder and proprietor of the Plymouth Western Morning News, and his wife Ellen Spender (née Rendle).…...
Stewart (Stuart), Sir William
Stewart (Stuart), Sir William (d. 1647), 1st baronet, army officer, was a Scot, and may have been the son of Andrew and Katherine Stewart of Garlies, Wigtownshire. He appears to have been a veteran of Swedish and/or Danish service, and arrived in Ulster in 1608 as one of two…...
St George, Richard St George Mansergh
St George, Richard St George Mansergh (c.1752–98), landlord, artist and soldier, was born Richard St George Mansergh, the only son of James Mansergh, landowner and soldier of Macrony Castle, Co. Cork, and his second wife Mary, a natural daughter of Lieutenant-General…...
St Lawrence, Sir Christopher
St Lawrence, Sir Christopher (d. 1619), 9th baron Howth , soldier, conspirator, and informer, was the eldest son of Nicholas St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth, and his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Christopher Barnewall, of Turvey, Co. Dublin. He is said to have been born in…...
St Leger (Seintleger, Sallinger), Sir Warham
St Leger (Seintleger, Sallinger), Sir Warham (d. 1600), soldier, was the son of William St Leger of Bilsington and Belgar in Kent and grandson of Sir Anthony St Leger (qv), lord deputy of Ireland on three separate occasions in…...
St Leger, Sir William
St Leger, Sir William (c.1580–1642), soldier, politician and lord president of Munster, was the son of Sir Warham St Leger (qv) and Elizabeth Rothe (d. 1620) of Kilkenny. The St Leger family,…...
Stopford, James
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Sweetman, Edward
Sweetman, Edward (d. 1796), army officer and United Irishman, is best known from laudatory mentions by Theobald Wolfe Tone (qv). A native probably of Co. Wexford, he was a nephew of …...
Talbot, James
Talbot, James (c.1768–1850),3rd Baron Talbot of Malahide , diplomat and spy, was born at Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin, second son among seven sons and five daughters of Richard Talbot, soldier, and Margaret Talbot (née O'Reilly). Educated at…...
Talbot, Thomas
Talbot, Thomas (1771–1853), soldier and colonial administrator, was born 19 July 1771 at Malahide Castle, Malahide, Co. Dublin, fourth son of Richard Talbot (d. 1788), soldier and landowner, and his wife Margaret (née O'Reilly) (d. 1834) of Ballinlough, Co. Westmeath, from 1831 Baroness…...