Butler, Piers [called Red Piers], first earl of Ossory and eighth earl of Ormond (b. in or after 1467, d. 1539), magnate and lord deputy of Ireland, was born after May 1467, at Pottlerath, co. Kilkenny (or possibly at Kilkenny), the third son of ...
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Caulfeild, Toby, first Baron Caulfeild of Charlemont (bap. 1565, d. 1627), soldier, politician, and landowner, was baptized on 2 December 1565 at Great Milton, Oxfordshire, a younger son of Alexander Caulfeild. Nothing is known of his early years or education, but from 1590 he pursued a military career, sailing on ...
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Fitzgerald, Gerald [Garret, Gearóid], eleventh earl of Kildare (1525–1585), magnate, was born on 28 February 1525, the eldest son of Gerald Fitzgerald, ninth earl of Kildare (1487–1534), lord deputy of Ireland, and his second wife, Elizabeth Fitzgerald (1514–1548), noblewoman, daughter of Thomas Grey, ...
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James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster (1722–1773) by Allan Ramsay, 1762 © reserved
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Fitzgerald, James, first duke of Leinster (1722–1773), politician and landowner, was born on 29 May 1722 at Carton, co. Kildare, Ireland, the second son but surviving heir of Robert Fitzgerald, nineteenth earl of Kildare (1675–1744), landowner, and Lady Mary O'Brien (1692–1780), eldest daughter of ...
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Fitzgerald, Sir Peter George, nineteenth knight of Kerry (1808–1880), civil servant and landowner, eldest surviving son of Maurice Fitzgerald, eighteenth knight of Kerry (1774–1849), and his first wife, Maria (d. 1829), daughter of the Rt Hon. David La Touche of Marlay, co. Dublin...
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William Robert Fitzgerald, second duke of Leinster (1749–1804) by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1774 photograph by courtesy Sotheby's Picture Library, London
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Liam Chambers
Fitzgerald, William Robert, second duke of Leinster (1749–1804), landowner and political reformer, was born on 12 March 1749 at Arlington Place, Piccadilly, London, the second of nineteen children of James Fitzgerald, first duke of Leinster (1722–1773), politician, and his wife, Lady Emily Mary Lennox (1731–1814)...
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French, Robert (1716–1779), landowner and politician, was the eldest son of Patrick French (d. 1744), barrister, and Jane Digby, the daughter of Simon Digby, successively bishop of Limerick and Elphin. The Frenches, of Anglo-Norman origins, had settled originally in the port of ...
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James Hamilton, first duke of Abercorn (1811–1885) by Bassano © National Portrait Gallery, London
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G. B. Smith
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Hamilton, James, first duke of Abercorn (1811–1885), landowner and politician, eldest son of James, Viscount Hamilton (d. 1814), and his wife, Harriet, daughter of the Hon. John Douglas, was born on 21 January 1811 in Seamore Place, Mayfair, Westminster. He succeeded as ...
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Jocelyn, Robert, first earl of Roden (1720/21–1797), landowner and politician, was the son of Robert Jocelyn, first Viscount Jocelyn (1687/8–1756), and his first wife, Charlotte (d. 1747), daughter of Charles Anderson of Worcester. The date of his baptism is usually given as 31 July 1731 but this may be an error for 1721. He matriculated at ...
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King, Sir John (d. 1637), politician and landowner, was born of a Yorkshire family, although the name of his parents and details of his early years remain unknown. He is first recorded in Ireland in July 1585 as secretary to Richard Bingham, governor of ...
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Valentine Browne Lawless, second Baron Cloncurry (1773–1853) by John Hogan, 1841 National Museum of Ireland; photograph © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lawless, Valentine Browne, second Baron Cloncurry (1773–1853), politician and landowner, only surviving son of Nicholas, first Baron Cloncurry (1733–1799), and Margaret (1748–1798), only child and heir of Valentine Browne of Mount Browne, co. Limerick, a wealthy Roman Catholic brewer of Dublin, was born in ...
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Christopher Maginn
O'Brien, Conor, third earl of Thomond (c. 1535–1581), landowner and rebel, was the eldest son of Donough O'Brien, second earl of Thomond (c.1515–1553), and Helen, youngest daughter of Piers Butler, eighth earl of Ormond. He was the first O'Brien to inherit the earldom since ...
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O'Brien, Murrough, first earl of Thomond (d. 1551), chieftain and rebel, was the third son of Turlough Donn O'Brien (d. 1528), lord of Thomond, and Raghnailt, daughter of John MacNamara, chief of Clancullen. In 1531 Murrough became tanist to his older brother ...
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O'Neill, John, first Viscount O'Neill (1740–1798), politician and landowner, was born on 16 January 1740 at Shane's Castle, co. Antrim, the eldest son of Charles O'Neill (d. 1769), MP and landowner, and Catherine Alice (d. 1790), third daughter of St John Brodrick MP...
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John O'Neill, first Viscount O'Neill (1740–1798) by Samuel William Reynolds senior (after James Dowling Herbert, after Matthew William Peters, in or after 1778) National Gallery of Ireland
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Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846–1891), politician and landowner, was born on 27 June 1846 at Avondale, co. Wicklow, the seventh of the eleven children of John Henry Parnell (1811–1859), deputy lieutenant and high sheriff for co. Wicklow, and his wife, Delia Tudor (1816–1896), daughter of ...
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