Sir Richard Eyre Cox, 4th Baronet was an Irish baronet. [1]
He was the son of The Ven. Sir Michael Cox, 3rd Baronet, [2] Archdeacon of Cashel from 1767 to 1772, and his wife Elizabeth Massy, daughter of Hugh Massy, 1st Baron Massy and his first wife Mary Dawson, and widow of John Arthur. He married Mary O'Brien, daughter of Edward Dominic O'Brien and his wife Mary Carrick, and great-granddaughter of William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin. They had one daughter. He drowned accidentally on 17 September 1783. [3] His widow remarried William Saurin, who was for many years the Attorney General for Ireland, by whom she had at least four children. She died in 1840.
Sir Timothy Carew O'Brien, 3rd Baronet was an Irish baronet who played cricket for England in five Test matches.
Sir John Temple was an Irish politician, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Attorney General for Ireland. He was the great-great-grandfather of the distinguished statesman Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston. His descendants in the female line include the famous poet Lord Byron.
Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet PC was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland from 1701 to 1703, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707 and as Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench for Ireland from 1711 to 1714.
Sir Henry Marsh, 1st Baronet was an Irish physician and surgeon. He was born in Loughrea, County Galway in Ireland. He was one of the medical doctors associated with Basedow's syndrome, which is also known as Marsh's disease and currently as Graves' disease.
Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.
Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond also spelt Conor and called Groibleach, or the "long-nailed", fought his uncle Donnell over his father's succession during thirty years from 1535 to 1565. He was confirmed as 3rd Earl of Thomond in 1558 by the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex. O'Brien intrigued with fitz Maurice in 1569 during the 1st Desmond Rebellion and fled to France. He returned and was pardoned in 1571, being restored to his lands at the end of the rebellion in 1573.
Sir Daniel O'Brien, 1st Viscount Clare was an Irish politician and soldier. He was a younger son of Connor O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Thomond. He fought against the insurgents at Tyrone's Rebellion, but for the insurgents in the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the Irish Confederate Wars. He resisted the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He joined Charles II of England in exile and was made a Viscount at the Restoration.
Sir Donough O'Brien, 1st Baronet of Leameneh was an Irish politician and baronet.
Sir Lucius Henry O'Brien, 3rd Baronet PC (Ire) was an Irish baronet and politician for 34 years.
Sir Edward O'Brien, 4th Baronet was an Irish parliamentarian who sat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom from 1802 to 1826.
Charles Kendal Bushe, was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe" because of his eloquence, he was Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1805 to 1822 and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1822 to 1841.
William Saurin was an Irish barrister, Crown official and politician. He was Attorney-General for Ireland from 1807 to 1822, and for much of that period, he acted as the effective head of the Irish Government. He was unusual among Irish Law Officers in that he was never appointed a judge, nor wished to become one. As an Ulster Protestant, and a determined opponent of Catholic Emancipation, he incurred the bitter enmity of Daniel O'Connell, who called him "the mortal foe", and worked for years to have him removed from office.
William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, styled Sir William Fermor, 2nd Baronet from 1661 to 1692, was an English politician and peer.
Hon. James O'Brien was an Irish nobleman and politician.
Captain Edward Dominic O'Brien was an Irish law enforcement official and British Army officer.
Sir Thomas Burdett, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and baronet.
Michael Cox was an Anglican archbishop in Ireland during the 18th century. He is now chiefly remembered for building one of Ireland's most magnificent remaining mansions, Castletown Cox, near Carrick-on-Suir. A younger son of Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet, Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1703 to 1707, and his wife Mary Bourne, he was born in Cork. He was educated at Kilkenny College and Christ Church, Oxford and ordained in 1713. He became Chaplain to Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, then Rector of Calan and Chancellor of Kilkenny. In 1743 he became Bishop of Ossory; and in 1754, Archbishop of Cashel.
Sir Michael Cox, 3rd Baronet was an Irish baronet and clergyman.
Sir Hugh Dillon Massy, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Irish politician and baronet.
Agmondisham Vesey was an Irish landowner.