Abbott, Rev. Thomas Kingsmill
(male)
03/26/1829 - 12/18/1913
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Cleric, scholar, and educator; translated Kant's Critique of Practical Reason (1878).
Anster, John
(male)
1793 - 06/09/1867
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Professor of civil law, journalist, and poet; his partial translation of Goethe's Faust appeared in Blackwood's; contributed prose and verse to the Dublin University Magazine; wrote literary articles for the North British Review. See Boase I: 74, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Apjohn, James
(male)
1795 - 06/02/1886
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Professor of applied chemistry, mineralogy. See Boase IV: 146.
Banks, Percival Weldon
(male)
1806 - 08/13/1850
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Barrister; wrote under the pseudonym "Morgan Rattler" for Fraser's Magazine and other periodicals; editor of Carlton Chronicle.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bell, Robert
(male)
01/16/1800 - 04/12/1867
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Started Dublin Historical Society; edited the Atlas, the Morning Chronicle, and the Home News; wrote History of Russia (1838), Lives of the English Poets (1839), other works; wrote 3 5-act comedies. See Boase I: 231, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Blackley, Rev. William Lewery
(male)
12/30/1830 - 07/25/1902
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Cleric and social reformer; accomplished linguist; wrote "National Insurance a Cheap, Practical, and Popular Way of Preventing Pauperism" in National Century in 1878; director of Clergy Mutual Insurance Company. He also translated Swedish poetry. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Bloxham, Mark
(male)
1796 - 04/10/1849
English
Trinity College, Dublin
Church of Ireland curate, RLF case 1051; wrote Paradise Regained (1834); add life dates 1796-1849 to Wellesley.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Browne, Charles Thomas
(male)
1825 - 10/07/1868
English
Trinity College, Dublin
Born in Somerset, a barrister (Inner Temple) and journalist, died in Basingstoke. See Boase I:443 and Royal Literary Fund case 1759.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Burgess, William Roscoe
(male)
05/29/1834 - 09/19/1905
Irish
Caius College, Cambridge; Trinity College, Dublin
Vicar of Christ Church, Latford; wrote The Relations of Language to Thought (1869).
Bury, John Bagnell
(male)
10/16/1861 - 06/01/1927
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Hstorian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist; taught at Trinity College Dublin and at the University of Cambridge; wrote A History of the Later Roman Empire from Arcadius to Irene (1889) and other works.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Butler, William Archer
(male)
1814 - 07/05/1848
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Historian of Philosophy; Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Dublin; published Sermons (1849), Lectures on the History of Ancient Philosophy; wrote for Dublin University Magazine. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Cooley, William Desborough
(male)
1795 - 03/01/1883
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Geographer; published The World Surveyed in the XIX Century (1845-8); See Boase I: 706-7; replace Wellesley year of birth 1794/1795 with 1795. EMC, VPR 30 (1997), 327. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Craig, John Duncan
(male)
09/23/1830 - 10/10/1909
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Poet, writer, and cleric; chaplain in Irish prison system.
Croker, John Wilson
(male)
12/20/1780 - 08/10/1857
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
M.P. and Secretary of the Admiralty; one of the founders of and a major contributor to Quarterly Review; wrote a variety of books. See Boase I: 764, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Croly, Rev. George
(male)
08/17/1770 - 11/24/1860
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Writer and cleric; drama critic at New Times; wrote poems in the Literary Gazette; edited the Literary Souvenir (1825-1834); wrote The Beauties of the British Poets (1828), A Memoir of Edmund Burke (1840), Scenes from Scripture and other poems (1851), and other works. See Boase I: 766, ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Darley, George
(male)
1795 - 11/23/1846
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Born in Dublin; contributed poems and theater articles to London Magazine; wrote mathematics and astronomy textbooks; wrote on art for the Athenaeum; most important poem is "Nepenthe." See ODNB.
de Vere, Aubrey Thomas
(male)
01/10/1814 - 01/20/1902
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Poet; wrote Sisters (1861); The Infant Bridal (1864); Irish Odes (1869); Legends of St Patrick (1872); and Legends of the Saxon Saints (1879); and in prose, Essays Chiefly on Poetry (1887); and Essays Chiefly Literary and Ethical (1889). See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Dixon, William Macniele
(male)
1866 - 1946
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Professor of English Literature, Trinity College, Dublin.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Dowden, John
(male)
06/29/1840 - 01/30/1910
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh; scholar of Scottish medieval ecclesiastical history. See ODNB.
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)
Dwyer, Francis Doyne
(male)
1809 - 1880
Irish
Trinity College, Dublin
Major in Austrian Imperial and Royal Service; wrote about military affairs involving Austrian or Prussian forces. See "England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2JDZ-RZR : accessed 10 March 2015).
(Also in the Wellesley Index.)