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Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879–1957), railway engineer and writer of detective stories, was born at 26 Waterloo Road, Dublin, on 1 June 1879, the son of Freeman Wills Crofts, a surgeon-lieutenant in the Army Medical Service, who died before his son's birth, and his wife, ...
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Griffith, Richard (1752–1820), politician and canal promoter, was born on 10 June 1752 at Abbey Street, Dublin, one of the two children of Richard Griffith (d. 1788), novelist and playwright, and his wife, Elizabeth Griffith (1727–1793), a more successful novelist and playwright and the daughter of ...
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Hayward, Walter Scott (1855–1910), yachtsman and boat designer, was born on 17 April 1855 at 20 St James Walk, Clerkenwell, London, the son of James Robertson Hayward (d. in or before 1880), ironmonger, and his wife, Eliza Isabella Greely. Nothing is known about his education or early life, but he joined ...
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Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary Heath, Lady Heath (1896–1939) by unknown photographer, 1926 © Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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Heath [née Peirce-Evans; other married name Eliott-Lynn], Sophie Catherine Theresa Mary, Lady Heath (1896–1939), aviator and athlete, was born at Knockaderry House, Knockaderry, near Newcastle West, co. Limerick, on 10 November 1896, the daughter of John Peirce-Evans (d. 1916), farmer, of ...
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Traill, William Atcheson (1844–1933), promoter of electric railway traction, was born at Ballylough House, Bushmills, co. Antrim, the third son and sixth child of William Traill, a local protestant landowner, and his wife, Louisa French. His brother Anthony Traill (1838–1914) became high sheriff of ...
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Wolff, Gustav Wilhelm (1834–1913), shipbuilder, was born at Hamburg, Germany, on 14 November 1834, the son of Moritz Wolff, merchant, and his wife, Fanny Schwabe. In 1819 his parents, along with other members of the Jewish family, had been baptized into the Lutheran church...
