The Regius Professorships of Divinity are amongst the oldest professorships at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. A third chair existed for a period at Trinity College Dublin.
Captain John Allen, 1st Viscount Allen,, was an Irish peer and politician.
Colonel Leslie Corry was an Irish politician.
The School of Medicine at Trinity College in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, is the oldest medical school in Ireland. Founded in the early eighteenth century, it was originally situated at the site of the current Berkeley Library. As well as providing an undergraduate degree in medicine, the school provides undergraduate courses in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, radiation therapy, human nutrition & dietetics and human health & disease, over 20 taught postgraduate courses, and research degrees.
Sir Walter Dixon Borrowes, 4th Baronet was an Irish politician.
William de Burgh was a prominent Anglo-Irish politician and theological writer who was a Member of Parliament for Athy (1769–76), a supporter of William Wilberforce, and an active campaigner for the abolition of slavery.
Edward Synge, D.D., M.A., B.A. (1659–1741) was an Anglican clergyman who served in the Church of Ireland as Chancellor of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (1705–1714), Bishop of Raphoe (1714–1716), and Archbishop of Tuam (1716–1741).
John Sterne (1660–1745) was an Irish Church of Ireland clergyman, bishop of Dromore from 1713 and then bishop of Clogher from 1717.
John Bodkin, Esquire. Born the second son of Counsellor-at-law, John Bodkin and Mary Clarke of Carrowbeg House, Belclare, Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. In 1741, John Bodkin, the second son of a landed gentry family in Co Galway, Ireland was arrested on the charge of murdering his older brother, Dominick. He was found guilty of the crime even though he refused to admit his guilt during his trial or thereafter. He was hanged, drawn and quartered in Galway City on Saturday, 20 March 1742.
Abel Ladaveze was an Irish Anglican clergyman.
Henry Cary (1717–1769) was the last surviving child of Rev Mordecai Cary, D.D., Bishop of Killala (1687–1751) and Catherine Courthorpe.
Giles Eyre (1689–1749) was an Anglican priest in Ireland in the eighteenth century.
Theophilus Brocas, D.D. (1705–1770) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the Eighteenth century.
Tobias Caulfield (1671-1735) was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century.
Peter Maturin was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century.
Arthur Champagne was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 18th century.
William Ussher (1718–1780) was an 18th-century Irish Anglican priest.
Edward Bayly (1709-1785) was a clergyman in the Church of Ireland during the 18th century. He was the son of Sir Edward Bayly, 1st Baronet, an Irish landowner and politician, and Dorothy, daughter of the Hon. Oliver Lambart.
Henry Alcock (1717-1812) was an Irish politician.
Samuel Frederick Brocas was an Irish artist best known for his series depicting Dublin known as the Select views of Dublin.
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