Anderson,
John d. 1820 Scotsman,
first to run fast coaches in Ireland.
Barrett,
Richard editor of The Pilot, supporter of Daniel
O’Connell, Repealer.
Beaufort,
Rev. D.A. 1739-1821,
rector of Collon, co. Louth, savant, adviser of John Foster.
Bessborough,
Earl of 1781-1847, John William Ponsonby,
Baron Duncannon, 4th Earl of Bessborough, Whig, Lord Lieutenant 1846-47.
Bianconi,
Charles 1786-1875,
Italian immigrant, public car operator.
Blake,
Anthony 1786-1849,
Catholic barrister, first Catholic appointed to high public office since 1690.
Carleton,
William 1794-1861,
novelist.
Castlereagh,
Lord 1769-1822, courtesy
title, Robert Stewart, later Marquis of Londonderry, Irish Secretary 1798-1801,
Foreign Secretary.
Cloncurry,
Lord 1773-1853,
Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, Whig, social reformer, Repealer.
Colby,
Thomas 1784-1852,
English soldier with rank of major in charge of Ordnance Survey.
Conway,
Frederick 1777-1853,
editor and later proprietor of Dublin
Evening Post, Repealer who became
anti-Repealer.
Cook,
Rev, Henry 1788-1868,
Presbyterian minister, Subscriber, Tory.
Cornwallis,
Lord 1738-1805, Charles
Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis, army general, Portland Whig, Lord
Lieutenant 1798-1801.
Crolly,
Rev. William
1780-1849, Catholic archbishop of Armagh 1835-49, moderate non-political.
Cullen,
Rev. Paul 1803-78,
succeeded William Crolly in 1849, later made cardinal, political, Repealer.
Dargan,
William 1799-1867,
railway construction contractor.
Davis,
Thomas 1814-45,
Protestant nationalist writer for The
Nation, Young Irelander, Repealer, opposed to political clergy.
Doyle,
Rev. James 1786-1834,
ablest Catholic bishop, reformer, died exhausted when quite young, Whig but not
active politically.
Drummond,
Thomas 1797-1840,
Scotsman, Lieutenant in Royal Engineers, surveyor, reformer, Under-secretary
for Ireland 1835-40.
Duffy,
Charles Gavan 1816-1903,
editor of The Nation, Young
Irelander, Repealer.
Edgeworth,
Maria 1767-1849,
novelist, educationalist, manager of her father's estates.
Edgeworth,
Richard Lovell
1744-1817, father of preceding, savant and inventor, chiefly famous for
experiments with the loading of carts and wagons.
Emmett,
Robert 1778-1803,
United Irishman and revolutionary, executed for treason 1803, chiefly famous
for his last speech as edited by A. M. Sullivan.
Fingall,
8th Earl of 1759-1836,
Arthur James Plunkett, Irish Whig peer, Catholic leader, U.K. peerage 1831.
Fingall,
9th Earl of 1791-1869,
Arthur James Plunkett, Lord Killeen, son of preceding, Whig. Catholic
leadership wrested from him by Daniel O’Connell.
Fitzgerald,
William Vesey
1783-1843, moderate Tory, last Chancellor of Irish Exchequer in 1817, defeated
by Daniel O’Connell in Clare
1828, given peerage by Peel.
Foster,
John 1740-1828, last
Speaker of Irish House of Commons, called Speaker Foster, later Baron Oriel,
High Tory, noted improving landlord.
Foster,
John Leslie d. 1842,
cousin of preceding, educationalist, High Tory.
Giffard,
John d.1819, editor of
the Dublin Journal, leader of
ascendancy faction in Dublin Corporation.
Goulburn,
Henry 1784-1856,
English Tory, Irish Secretary 1821-28, follower of Peel.
Grattan,
Henry 1746-1820, Whig,
'Patriot' leader in Irish House of Commons, rarely attended Parliament in
Westminster.
Grattan,
jun. Henry 1789-1859,
MP son of preceding, lacked ability and sense, supported Daniel O’Connell,
Repealer.
Griffith,
Richard 1784-1878,
geologist, surveyor, land valuator.
Harvey,
Philip d. 1826, able
editor of Freeman's Journal.
Hincks,
Thomas Dix 1767-1865. Presbyterian minister,
educationalist.
Lalor,
James Fintan 1807-49,
Young Irelander, revolutionary, extreme visionary reformer.
Lawless,
John 1773-1837, called 'Honest Jack', Whig
radical, believed that politicians should tell the truth and pay their bills,
often bested by Daniel O’Connell.
MacHale,
Rev. John 1791-1881,
Catholic archbishop of Tuam, political clergyman, Repealer, violently opposed
to every Government.
Magee,
John d 1822,
proprietor of Dublin Evening Post,
inexperienced and exploited by Daniel O’Connell, gaoled, died young.
Magee,
Rev. William 1766-1831, Protestant archbishop of Dublin
1822-31, opposed Emancipation, scholar and ecclesiastical reformer.
Maher,
Rev. James Catholic
political priest, controversialist, Repealer.
Mason,
William Shaw
1774-1853, statistician.
Mathew,
Rev. Theobald 1796-1856,
Catholic priest, Temperance crusader.
Manners,
Lord 1756-1842, Thomas
Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners, English Tory, Irish Lord Chancellor 1807-27.
Mitchel,
John 1815-75, inflammatory revolutionary, later
supporter of Negro slavery in United States.
Montgomery,
Rev. Henry 1788-1865,
Presbyterian minister, Whig, Non-subscriber,
defeated by Rev. Henry Cook.
Murray,
Rev. Daniel 1768-1852,
Catholic archbishop of Dublin 1823-52, Whig but non-political, favoured Repeal
if feasible, co-operated with Government except over Veto.
Newport,
Sir John 1756-1843,
Whig politician, scrutinised public finance, held office in 1806 and in 1830's.
Nimmo,
Alexander 1783-1832,
Scottish engineer.
Norbury,
Lord 1745-1831, John
Toler, Baron Norbury, Unionist and Tory, Chief Justice of Common Pleas 1800-27, mutual dislike between him and
Daniel O’Connell both being forensic humorists.
O’Brien,
William Smith 1803-64,
Tory MP, Repealer and improbable revolutionary in 1848.
O’Connell,
Daniel 1775-1847,
outstanding legal and political figure, scantily educated, Catholic leader but
not in a moral sense, able courtroom barrister though lacking in learning,
Repeal leader.
O’Connor,
Feargus 1794-1855, son
of a United Irishman, radical reformer always blocked by O’Connell, Chartist
leader in England, apparently not quite sane.
O’Sullivan,
Rev. Mortimer 1791?-1859,
Tory clergyman of Established Church, anti-popery controversialist.
Ousley,
Rev. Gideon 1762-1869,
Methodist preacher.
Parnell,
Sir Henry 1776-1842,
1st Baron Congleton, Whig MP reformer, chiefly remembered for the construction
of the Holyhead Road.
Peel,
Sir Robert 1788-1850,
Moderate Tory reformer, Irish Secretary 1813-18, opposed Catholic Claims
until 1828, twice Prime Minister.
Always more than a match for Daniel O’Connell. Their loathing for each other
was mutual.
Petty,
Sir William savant and
land surveyor under Charles II, best survey before the Ordnance Survey.
Plunket,
William Conyngham
1764-1854, 1st Baron Plunket, moderate Tory, held office under both Whigs and
Tories, Irish Lord Chancellor 1830-41.
Ponsonby,
George 1755-1817,
cousin of Earl of Bessborough, Leader of Whigs in Commons 1808-17.
Purcell,
Peter
d.1848, leading coach operator after
1815, railway promoter, agriculturalist.
Saurin,
William 1757-1839,
Tory barrister, opposed Emancipation, Irish attorney general 1807-1822.
Sharman-Crawford,
William 1781-1861,
Whig MP, Social reformer, Federalist.
Sheil,
Richard Lalor
1791-1851, barrister, playwright, Catholic leader, took office under the Whigs.
Spring-Rice,
Thomas 1790-1866,
moderate Tory or Whig, reformer, took office under Canning and also the Whigs,
later Baron Mounteagle.
Staunton,
Michael proprietor of Morning Post, Repealer.
Tone,
Theobald Wolfe d.
1798, United Irishman, believed reform impossible without revolution, died
after capture.
Troy,
Rev. Thomas 1739-1823,
Catholic archbishop of Dublin 1784-1823, co-operated with Government on Church
matters, non-political, condemned United Irishmen in 1798, took Daniel Murray
as co-adjutor in 1809.
Wakefield,
Edward 1774-1854
English statistician.
Wellesley,
Marquis 1760-1842,
Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, eldest of Wellesley brothers,
moderate Tory, Lord Lieutenant 1821-28 and 1832-34.
Wellesley-Pole,
William 1763-1845,
brother of preceding, added Pole when adopted as an heir, later Baron
Maryborough, moderate Tory reformer, able and active
Irish Secretary 1809-12.
Wellington,
Duke of 1769-1852,
brother of two preceding, Arthur Wellesley, Irish Secretary 1807-9, famous
general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, later Prime Minister.
Whateley,
Richard 1787-1863,
English Whig, Protestant archbishop of Dublin 1831-63, ablest Irish churchman
in 19th cent., ecclesiastical reformer, educationalist.
Williams,
Charles Wye Promoter
of Steam Navigation and the development of the River Shannon.