Fitzpatrick, Sir Jeremiah (c. 1740–1810), physician and campaigner for prison reform, was born in Kilbeggan, co. Westmeath. His background and early years are shrouded in obscurity, but circumstantial evidence points to the conclusion that his parents, of whom nothing is known, were Catholic and that they were comfortably off. He received a medical education abroad and though his graduating institution has not been identified ...
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Fitzpatrick, Sir Jeremiah (c. 1740–1810), physician and campaigner for prison reform
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Graves, Robert James (1796–1853), physician
Karl Magee
Graves, Robert James (1796–1853), physician, was born on 28 March 1796 in Holles Street, Dublin, the seventh of ten children of Richard Graves (1763–1829), and his wife, Elizabeth, née Drought. He received his early education in the diocesan school at Downpatrick, co. Down...
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Lucas, Charles (1713–1771), politician and physician
Sean J. Murphy
Lucas, Charles (1713–1771), politician and physician, was born on 16 September 1713 in co. Clare, a younger son of Benjamin Lucas (d. c.1727), a gentleman farmer of Ballingaddy, and Mary Blood. His great-grandfather, Lieutenant-Colonel Benjamin Lucas, was a Cromwellian officer who had been granted lands in ...
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Marsh, Sir Henry, first baronet (1790–1860), physician
Laurence M. Geary
Marsh, Sir Henry, first baronet (1790–1860), physician, was born at Loughrea, co. Galway, son of Robert Marsh, rector of Killinane, co. Galway, and Sophia, daughter of William Wolseley, rector of Tullycorbet, co. Monaghan. Marsh's mother was a granddaughter of Sir Thomas Molyneux, physician and patriot. His paternal ancestry consisted of a long line of Anglican divines, the most celebrated being ...
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Quain, Sir Richard, baronet (1816–1898), physician
Richard Davenport-Hines
Quain, Sir Richard, baronet (1816–1898), physician, was born at Mallow, on the Blackwater, near Cork, while the clocks were striking midnight on 30 October 1816. He was the eldest surviving child of John Quain, a small landowner at Carrigoon, and his wife, Mary Burke...
