Malley, James Young (‘Jim’)
(1918–2000), civil servant
and airman, was born 24 July 1918 near Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone, one of four sons and one daughter of
Francis William Malley, a local farmer and merchant, and his wife Ruby Elizabeth
(née Young). The family was methodist. He…...
Roddie, Ian Campbell (1928–2011), physiologist and academic, was born on 1
December 1928 in Belfast,
third of four sons of J. R. Wesley Roddie (d. 1953), a methodist minister, and his wife
Mary Hill (née Wilson; d. 1973); the four brothers all entered the medical
profession. Rev.…...
Walton, Ernest Thomas Sinton (1903–95), scientist, educator, and Nobel prize laureate, was born 6 October 1903 in Abbeyside, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, elder of two children of the Rev. John Arthur Walton and Anna Elizabeth Walton (née Sinton). His father, a methodist minister, was born…...
Wilson, (William) Gordon (1927–95), peace campaigner, was born 25 September 1927 at Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, the eldest of four children of George Edward Wilson, draper, of Manorhamilton, and his wife Etta (Henrietta, née Conn), a nurse, of Ballykelly, Co. Londonderry. The family…...