Petrus de Hibernia (Peter of Ireland)
Petrus de Hibernia (Peter of Ireland) (fl. c.1200–p.1260), philosopher and teacher at Naples, probably of Anglo-Irish descent, was known as gemma magistrorum, the ‘gem of teachers’. He received his education probably at Oxford and Paris and may also have…...
Pinkerton, Emily (Emilie) Cordner-
Pinkerton, Emily (Emilie) Cordner- (c.1859–1902), publisher, was born probably in Newry, Co. Down, where her parents, William Henry Cordner (d. 1890) and Matilda Cordner (née McCracken), had a jewellery and watchmaker's shop. There were also at least three sons in the family…...
Pollard, Mary ('Paul')
Pollard, Mary ('Paul') (1922–2005), librarian, was born 5 June 1922 in Essex, the eldest of four children (three daughters and a son) of an emigrant Irish doctor, Richard Payne Pollard, MC, and his wife (née Wilkinson). She was educated at Hawnes School and then studied medicine for…...
Porter, William
Porter, William (1757–1841), printer, was born probably in Wexford, son of Henry Porter of Blackwater, Co. Wexford, and his wife, Hannah, daughter of John Peare of Kilmallock. His great-grandfather John Porter, quartermaster, had been granted lands in Arklow, Co. Wicklow, by Charles…...
Potts, James
Potts, James (c.1733–1796), printer and newspaper proprietor, was the son of John Potts (d. 1738), an Athlone merchant, and his wife, Jane. James was apprenticed to the printer George Faulkner (qv) on 1 December 1747, and in…...
Powell, Humphrey
Powell, Humphrey (fl.1551–66), first ‘king's printer’ in Ireland, was a charter member of the London Stationers' Company, and had already printed seven or eight books in his premises in Holborn, London, when on 18 July 1550 the English privy council issued a warrant…...
Pue, Elizabeth
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Pue II, Richard
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Pue, James
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Pue, Richard
Pue, Richard (d. 1722), newspaper publisher, bookseller, and coffee house proprietor, founded Dick's Coffee House, Skinner Row, Dublin, sometime before July 1698. Made a freeman of the city (1701) as a member of the Dyers’ Guild, he commenced publication of Impartial…...
Pue, Sarah
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Punch (Pontius, Ponce), John
Punch (Pontius, Ponce), John (1603–c.1660×73), philosopher, theologian, and controversialist, was born in Cork of an Anglo-Irish family. Nothing is known of his parents, his early years, or his education before he entered the novitiate of the Irish Franciscans at St…...
Ray, Elizabeth
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Ray, Joseph
Ray, Joseph (d. 1709), printer, bookseller, newspaper publisher, and ‘deputy king's printer’, was son of Giles Ray, of London, woodmonger; nothing is known of his mother. Serving his apprenticeship under his kinsman John North, bookseller, Ray was made free of the London…...
Reilly, Alice
Reilly, Alice (1702/3–1778), printer and publisher, born Alice Abbot , was the widow (m. 10 October 1733) of Richard Reilly; she took over his business on his death in July 1741. Paying quarterage fees to the printers guild (the Guild of St Luke the Evangelist), she was unable to…...
Roberts, George
Roberts, George (1873–1953), actor, publisher, and poet, was born 8 January 1873 in Clarkill, Kilmegan, Castlewellan, Co. Down, son of Oliver Goldsmith Roberts, a warehouse manager, and Margaret Roberts (née Gray). On leaving school he worked briefly in the linen trade, and later in the…...
Roddy, Martin
Roddy, Martin (1883–1948), politician, publisher, and farmer, was born 9 December 1883 at Breeogue, Kilmacowen, Co. Sligo, eldest son among at least four sons and two daughters of Patrick Roddy, farmer, and Jane Roddy (née O'Hara). The family were long established and prominent in…...
Saunders, Henry
Saunders, Henry (c.1725–1787), publisher, printer, and bookseller, was probably born in Dublin; nothing else is known of his family background. He lived and worked in the city throughout his life. In the late 1740s he was a journeyman to the printer and newspaper proprietor…...
Share, Bernard Vivian
Share, Bernard Vivian (1930–2013), writer and editor, was born on 31 May 1930 in London to Irish parents Frederick Share, a civil servant, and May Share, who had emigrated there from Dublin. He lived in England until he was seventeen, attending school in Pinner, Middlesex, before moving…...
Smith, John
Smith, John (d. 1771), presbyterian bookseller, was a native of Ulster. Nothing is known of his parents, but he was probably a kinsman of William Smith (1698–1741), one of his business partners. William was a son of Samuel Smith, a Belfast merchant and an associate of…...
Staunton, Michael
Staunton, Michael (1788–1870), editor and publisher, was born in Co. Clare into a liberal protestant family (nothing more is known of his parents). As a young man he moved to Dublin, where he succeeded in 1813 to the editorship of the Freeman's Journal, then owned by…...
Stevenson, John
Stevenson, John (1850–1931), printer, inventor, antiquary, and author, was born in Rostrevor, Co. Down, in 1850, eldest among three to five sons of John Stevenson (d. 1881) and Harriet Stevenson (née Walsh; d. 1891). One brother died in childhood and one as a young man; there may…...
Stewart, John Watson
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Stockdale, John
Stockdale, John (d. 1813), printer and bookseller, may have been born in Dublin; nothing is known of his family background. He was a printer's apprentice to Henry Saunders (qv), and in 1772 was admitted free of the guild of St Luke by…...
Sweeney, John Anthony (Tony)
Sweeney, John Anthony (Tony) (1931–2012), horse-racing journalist and bibliophile, was born on 26 June 1931 in London, son of John Sweeney (1887–1940), GPO surveyor, and his wife Kitty, daughter of James Joseph ('J. J.')…...