Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connacht, was a Hiberno-Norman aristocrat who was Seneschal of Munster and Justiciar of Ireland (1228–32).
Sir John Arnott, 1st Baronet JP was a Scottish-Irish entrepreneur and a major figure in the commercial and political spheres of late-19th century Cork. He was also founder of the Arnotts department chain.
John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont, PC, FRS, known as Sir John Perceval, Bt, from 1691 to 1715, as The Lord Perceval from 1715 to 1722 and as The Viscount Perceval from 1722 to 1733, was an Anglo-Irish politician.
Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy was an Irish politician in the British parliament who was granted a title in the Peerage of Ireland. His direct ancestor was Maurice FitzEdmund Roche, Mayor of Cork, who died in 1593.
Sir Thomas Holte, 1st Baronet was an English landowner, responsible for building Aston Hall, in the parish of Aston in Warwickshire. The "Holte End" stand of Villa Park, the stadium of Aston Villa Football Club, sits on land originally part of the Aston Hall gardens and is named after Thomas Holte. The area also has a Holte School and Holte Road.
Sir William Wyndham, 1st Baronet of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, was Member of Parliament for Somerset in 1656 and twice for Taunton in 1659 and 1660. He was Sheriff of Somerset in 1679–80.
Sir Warham St LegerPC (Ire) was an English soldier, administrator, and politician, who sat in the Irish House of Commons in the Parliament of 1585–1586.
Sir John Eyles, 2nd Baronet of Gidea Hall in Essex, was a British financier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1713 to 1734. He was Lord Mayor of London in 1726. He served as a Director of the East India Company 1710-14 and again 1717-21 and was appointed a sub-governor of the South Sea Company in 1721.
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Burton, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Ireland. Both creations are extinct.
Jemmett Browne was the Church of Ireland Bishop of Killaloe from 1743 to 1745, Bishop of Dromore for three months in the middle of 1745, Bishop of Cork and Ross from 1745 to 1772, Bishop of Elphin from 1772 to 1775, and finally Archbishop of Tuam from 1775 until his death in 1782.
Captain Edward Dominic O'Brien was an Irish law enforcement official and British Army officer.
Sir George Thorold, 1st Baronet of Harmston, Lincolnshire, was an English merchant active in London. He served as Lord Mayor of London, Sheriff of London, and a Director of the Bank of England.
Sir John Redmond Freke, 3rd Baronet was a baronet in the Baronetage of Great Britain and a Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons.
Samuel Burton of Burton Hall was an 18th-century Irish MP and High Sheriff of Carlow.
Sir Edward Newenham (1734–1814) was an Irish politician.
Sir Joseph Hoare, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish politician.
The Recorder of Cork was a judicial office holder in pre-Independence Ireland. The Recorder was the chief magistrate of Cork city: his principal duty was to keep the peace. The office was very similar to that of the Recorder of Dublin, except that the Recorder of Cork, unlike his Dublin counterpart, did not have power to preside over any trial charging a capital crime. A statute of 1877 stated that wherever possible the Recorder should also be the Chairman of the Cork East Riding Quarter Sessions. The office of Recorder of Cork, like the Recorder of Dublin, was an onerous one, involving at least two sittings of the Court every week; most of the time the Recorder had a Deputy Recorder to assist him.
Edward Day was Archdeacon of Ardfert from 1782 until his death.
Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet JP was an Anglo-Irish landowner and businessman who owned Warrenscourt House and Crookstown House in County Cork.
Sir Edward J. Fitzgerald, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician. He spent several decades as a member of Cork Corporation and was the second Lord Mayor of Cork.
