Trinity College, officially The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, is the sole constituent college of the University of Dublin, a research university in Dublin, Ireland. Queen Elizabeth I founded the college in 1592 as "the mother of a university" that was modelled after the collegiate universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but unlike these affiliated institutions, only one college was ever established; as such, the designations "Trinity College" and "University of Dublin" are usually synonymous for practical purposes.
John Henry Bernard, PC, was an Irish Anglican clergyman.
Robert Brendan McDowell was an Irish historian. He was a Fellow Emeritus and a former Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin. He was born in Belfast. He was referred to colloquially as "RB", "McDowell" or "the White Rabbit". His politics were strongly Unionist and he was a member of the British Conservative Party.
Roger Boyle was an Irish Protestant churchman, Bishop of Down and Connor and Bishop of Clogher.
Charles Cobbe was Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765, and as such was Primate of Ireland.
Joseph Warwick Bigger was an Irish politician and academic. He was an Independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1947 to 1951.
The Regius Professorship of Laws is a professorship at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). It is one of the oldest chairs in the college, having been founded in 1668. Professor Mark Bell has held the post since July 2015.
'Michael Ward (1643-1681) was a 17th-century Anglican bishop and academic in Ireland.
Anthony Martin was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the first half of the 17th-century.
Richard Murray (1725?–1799) was an Irish mathematician and academic, who spent his whole career Trinity College Dublin (TCD), serving both as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics (1764–1795) and Provost (1795–1799).
Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin is a chair in physics founded in 1724 and funded by the Erasmus Smith Trust, which was established by Erasmus Smith, a wealthy London merchant, who lived from 1611 to 1691. It is one of the oldest dedicated chairs of physics in Britain and Ireland. Originally, the holder was to be elected from the members of the college by an examination to determine the person best qualified for the professorship. Since 1851, the professorship has been supported by Trinity College. Of the 22 holders of this chair, seven were Fellows of the Royal Society while one, Ernest Walton, won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Charles Coote was an Irish politician.
Francis Corbet, D.D. was an Irish Anglican Dean.
Giles Eyre (1689–1749) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the eighteenth century.
Francis Hutchinson (1703–1768) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century.
William Clement was an Irish academic who spent his whole career at Trinity College Dublin (TCD), teaching botany, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine there. He was the third Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at TCD (1745-1759).
Henry Wright was Archdeacon of Kilmacduagh" p105: from 1745 until his death in 1750.
Edward Browne (1699–1777) was an Anglican priest in Ireland.
Arthur Mahon (1716–1788) was an Irish Anglican priest.
Rachel Moss is an Irish art historian and professor specialising in medieval art, with a particular interest in Insular art, medieval Irish Gospel books and monastic history. She is the current head of the Department of the History of Art at Trinity College Dublin, where she was became a fellow in 2022.
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