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# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Maguire, William Joseph

​MAGUIRE, William Joseph, B.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. (Ireland); Diploma in Mental Diseases (R.U.I.); Medical Commissioner, National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland); Ex Senator, National University of Ireland. Educ.: St. Malachy's College, Belfast; Queen's College, Belfast, and Richmond Hospital, Dublin. Was Senior Visiting Physician, Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast; Clinical Lecturer and Examiner in Medicine, Queen's University, Belfast; Extern Examiner, National University of Ireland; Member of Standing Committee, Queen's University, Belfast. Address: Ardeevin, 71 Highfield Road, Dublin.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Greene, Anne

​GREENE, ANNE (fl. 1650), criminal, born in 1628, was a native of Steeple Barton, Oxfordshire, who entered the household of Sir Thomas Read of Dunstew in the same county as a domestic servant. She was seduced by her master's grandson and gave birth to a child, which, as she alleged, and according to medical evidence, was stillborn. She was, however, condemned to death for murder, and on 14 Dec. 1650 was hanged at Oxford. At her own request several of her friends pulled at her swinging body, and struck severe blows, so as to make sure that she was dead, and after the usual interval she was cut down and given over to the doctors for dissection. It was then discovered that Greene was still breathing, and with the help of restoratives she soon regained her health. She was granted a free pardon. The event was regarded as the special interference of the hand of God on behalf of the innocent, and called forth several pamphlets. The most notable of these is 'Newes from the Dead, or a True and Exact Narration of the Miraculous Deliverance of Anne Greene … written by a Scholler in Oxford … whereunto are prefixed certain Poems casually written upon that subject,' Oxford, 1651; the poems, which are twenty-five in number and in various languages, include a set of Latin verses by Christopher Wren, then a gentleman-commoner of Wadham College.
[Pamphlets referred to; Wood's Autobiog. in Athenæ, ed. Bliss, i. xviii, xix.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Green, William (1761-1823)

​GREEN, WILLIAM (1761–1823), water-colour painter and engraver, born at Manchester in 1761, was first engaged as assistant to a surveyor there. Not liking this profession, he came to London and studied engraving, especially aquatint, but owing to indifferent health settled at Ambleside. He now devoted himself to drawing the scenery of the lakes, and found many patrons among the visitors to Keswick and Ambleside. There are three water-colour drawings by him in the print room at the British Museum, one being of the old bridge at Borrodale, and a similar drawing of Raven Crag, Thirlmere, is in the South Kensington Museum. They are carefully finished, with great truth to nature. In 1797, 1798, and 1801, Green was an exhibitor at the Royal Academy. In 1807 he issued a proposal for publishing a series of sixty prints from sketches of his larger size. Thirty appeared in 1808, twelve more in 1809, and the work was completed in 1810, and published with an accompanying volume of text. In 1809 Green published a smaller series of seventy-eight studies from nature, etched on soft ground by himself. In 1814 he also published a smaller edition of the former series of sixty prints, executed as before. All these were from drawings of the scenery in the Lake country. In 1822 Green published in two volumes ‘The Tourist's New Guide, containing a description of the Lakes, Mountains, and Scenery in Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Lancashire,’ with forty etchings by himself. Green died at Ambleside, 28 April 1823, aged 62.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Green, William Pringle

​GREEN, WILLIAM PRINGLE (1785–1846), inventor, born apparently at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1785, was eldest son of Benjamin Green (d. 1794), treasurer of the province of Nova Scotia, a member of the House of Assembly there, and a justice of the court of common pleas. His grandfather, also Benjamin Green (1713-1772), was in business at Boston, Massachusetts, till 1745, when he took part in the capture of Cape Breton. In 1749 he settled at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and became governor of the province in 1766. William Pringle entered the Cleopatra as a midshipman in 1797, and was afterwards for three years and a half in the West Indies in La Topaze. He was afterwards in the Circe and the Sanspareil. After the peace of Amiens he was in the Trent, and thence drafted into the Conqueror, in which he served at Trafalgar. He took part in the capture of the Bucentaure on that day, and was promoted to a lieutenancy for his services, and appointed to the Formidable. He afterwards served on the American coast as first lieutenant of the Eurydice, and communicated to Sir John Borlase Warren plans for bringing English ships to an equality with the Americans. In 1811 he commanded the brig Resolute, and carried out his plans for training the crew to the satisfaction of the admiralty. The Resolute was paid off in 1815, and Green devoted his time to inventions, till in 1829 he was appointed to a Falmouth packet. After nearly three years' service she was paid off, and Green was neglected till in 1842 he was appointed lieutenant of the Victory, and quartered in the Blanche frigate at Portsmouth. He fell into embarrassments, had to resign a year later, and died at Landport, Portsmouth, on 18 Oct. ​1846. He left a widow and seven children. He seems to have been neglected through life, and could only leave a pension of 50l. a year to his family. Green was an officer of great mechanical ingenuity. In spite of constant discouragement he devoted the greater part of his life to the promotion of inventions and improvements connected with the service, many of which were so valuable as to be introduced throughout the navy. He submitted to the navy board a clever plan for lowering and fidding top-masts, an imitation of which, at a later period, procured for another person a reward of 5,000l. from the admiralty. The Society of Arts in 1823 presented him with a silver medal for his improvements in rigging ships, as they subsequently did for his 'tiller for a disabled rudder' and his 'gun-carriage and jointed ramrod for naval use.' In 1830, and again in 1837, he took out patents for improvements in capstans, and in machinery employed in raising, lowering, and moving ponderous bodies (Woodcroft, Alphabetical Index of Patentees, 1617-1852, London, 1854). He had previously, in 1833, published a work entitled 'Fragments from remarks of twenty-five years in every quarter of the globe on Electricity, Magnetism, Aerolites, and various other Phenomena of Nature,' 1833, with portrait and a genealogy of the author.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Greenbury, Robert

Richard Greenbury in the ODNB.
​GREENBURY, ROBERT (fl. 1616–1650), painter, painted in 1626 a well-known portrait, of some merit, of Arthur Lake, bishop of Bath and Wells, for New College, Oxford. The college paid 4l. for the work. It was exhibited at the National Portrait Exhibition in 1866 (No. 524). In 1625 Greenbury was employed by the East India Company to paint a large picture giving details of the cruelties inflicted on the English by the Dutch at Amboyna (Cal. State Papers, Dom. Ser., Car. I). The picture, which is said to have caused the widow of one of the victims to swoon, was intended to inflame popular passion, and was defaced from motives of foreign policy. 'Robert Greenberry, picture-drawer,' figures in the lists of recusants returned by the Westminster justices to the crown in 1628 (ib.) Among the pictures belonging to Charles I was one of 'Diana and Calisto, bigger than life, a copy after Grimberry,' sold to Captain Geere for 22l. This is more probably a copy by Greenbury, as the king also possessed 'Two copies of Albert Durer and his father, which are done by Mr. Greenbury, by the appointment of the Lord Marshall.' Evelyn in his 'Diary' writes on 24 Oct. 1664: 'Thence to New College, and the painting of Magdalen Chapel, which is on blue cloth in chiar'oscuro, by one Greenborow, being a Cœna Domini.' This is no longer in its place, and was probably removed in 1829. Greenbury also painted a picture of William Waynflete, the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford, dated 1638, and one Richard Greenbury in 1632 contracted to supply the chapel there with painted glass. In 1636 Richard Greenbury patented a process for painting with oil colours upon woollen cloth, kerseys, and stuffs for hangings, also on silk for windows (Woodcroft. Alphabetical Index of Patentees, 1617-1852, London, 1854).
[Art Journal, 1885, p. 140; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. vi. 431; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; authorities quoted in the text; Cat. of the National Portrait Exhibition, 1866.]
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Greene, George

​GREENE, GEORGE (fl. 1813), traveller, was born in 1747 or 1748. In 1787 a decree in the court of chancery deprived him of the greater part of his fortune. Unable to find employment at home, he became at Easter 1790, on the recommendation of Lord Adam Gordon, land-steward to the Prince of Monaco on his estate at Torigny in Lower Normandy. From 14 Oct. 1793 till 24 Jan. 1795 he was imprisoned by the revolutionary leaders, with his wife Isabella and his five children, in the castle at Torigny. The Duke of Valentinois, the son and successor of the Prince of Monaco, after being restored to his castle and such part of his estates as remained unsold, appointed Greene his land-steward in February 1796. The coup d'état of 4 Sept. 1797 again threw him out of employment. In 1798 he went to Paris, and tried in vain to obtain passports for England. He returned to Torigny, where he was again arrested on 14 July 1798, and imprisoned in the citadel of St. Lo until December 1799. In February 1800 he was allowed to return to England. To relieve his distress he published by subscription ‘A Relation of several Circumstances which occurred in the Province of Lower Normandy during the Revolution, and under the Governments of Robespierre and the Directory; commencing in 1789 down to 1800. With a detail of the Confinement and Sufferings of the Author; together with an Account of the Manners and Rural Customs of the Inhabitants of that part of the Country called the Bocage, in Lower Normandy,’ 8vo, London, 1802. Greene afterwards resided in Russia, and wrote a ‘Journal from London to St. Petersburg by way of Sweden,’ 12mo, London, 1813. He is mentioned as still alive in the ‘Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors,’ 1816.
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# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryan, Miss Mary

Mary Kate Ryan
​RYAN, Miss Mary, M.A. (R.U.I.), Ex-Junior F.R.U.I. Educ. at the Ursuline Convent, St. Angela's, Cork, at Ursuline Convent, Berlin, and Dominican Convent Neuilly-sur-Seine; Exhibitioner and gold medallist. Intermediate Examinations; Exhibitioner and Student, R.U.I.: Junior F.R.U.I. in Modern Literature, 1898-1901; Intermediate Examiner in French, 1902-08; Lecturer in German, University College, Cork, 1909-10: Professor of Romance Languages, University College, Cork, since 1910. Pubns.: has contributed to New Ireland Review, Dublin Review, Irish Educational Review, Month, Dolphin, Irish Rosary, and other periodicals. Recn.: music'; only dau. of Edward Ryan, of Ronayn's Court, Rochestown, Co. Cork. Res.: Ronayn's Court, Rochestown, Co. Cork.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryan, Professor Hugh

​RYAN, Professor Hugh, M.A., D.Sc. (R.U.I.), Professor of Chemistry in University College, Dublin, since 1899. Educ.: Queen's College, Galway; University of Berlin: M.A. Degree of Royal University of Ireland in Chemistry and Physics, 1897; worked at chemical research in laboratory of Professor Emil Fischer at Berlin, 1897-1899; his researches in chemistry were mainly on glucosides, amidoketones, waxes, peat, and natural dyes. Pubns.: several original papers on glucosides, waxes, etc. in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, of the Royal Dublin Society, etc. Recns. golf and bridge; b. 1873: m. 1904, Kathleen, third dau. of Col. F. G. Adye-Curran, R.A.M.C, of Dublin, and has issue three sons and four daus. Res.: Omdurman, Orwell Park, Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryce, George

​RYCE, George, B.A. (R.U.I.), 1851; Royal Commissioners Research Scholar in Chemistry, 1892; A.R.C.S. (Lond.) Chemistry and Agriculture; first class diploma in Agriculture, R.A.S.E.; Hon. Sec. Companions of St. Patrick; J.P. for City of Dublin; b. 19th April, 1869. Clubs: Leinster Club, and Milltown Golf Club.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryan, John Joseph

​RYAN, John Joseph, D.L., J.P., Co. Limerick (High Sheriff, 1908). Educ. at St. Mary's College, Oscott; served as a Volunteer in the S. African War, 1890-1901; served in European War as Lieut. 16th Lancers, 1914-18; is Master of the Scarteen Beagles; eldest son of Major-Gen. Thaddeus Richard Ryan, R.A., D.L., of Scarteen, Co. Limerick, and Gwendoline, dau. of Sir James Power, 2nd Bart.; b. 1871; m. 1919, Anita, dau. of late M. J. Purcell, of Burton Park, Buttevant, Co. Cork. Res.: Scarteen, Knocklong, Co. Limerick.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Sadlier, Thomas Ulick

​SADLIER, Thomas Ulick, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.R.S.A.I., Registrar of the Office of Arms; Hon. Editor Kildare Journal of Archaeology; Hon. Treasurer Irish Memorials Association; Hon. Secretary Irish Book-place Club. Educ.: Rossall; Trinity College, Dublin; Irish Bar, 1906, joined Leinster Circuit; Legal Assessor at Dublin University Election. Acted as Editor of Georgian Society's Publications, 1911-13; Member of Committee of the R.S.A.I., 1921; b. 1882; third son of Rev. Francis Sadlier, M.A., and Philippa, sister of Ulick Ralph Burke, Spanish historian. Pubns.: Memoir of the Rt. Hon. Sir Ralph Sadlier, Knt., Banneret, 1907; Georgian Mansions in Ireland (in collaboration with P. L. Dickinson), 1915; An Irish Peer on the Continent, 1920; wrote almost the whole of the letterpress in Vols. III., IV., and V. of the Georgian Society; also articles in Hitchcock's Midland Septs and the Pale, Athenæum, Notes and Queries, "Irish Times," Victoria County History of Herts, Last Herts Archaeological Journal, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Galway Archæological Journal, Waterford Archaeological Journal, etc. Recns.: walking; looking at prints and paintings. Res.: 51 Lansdowne Road, Dublin. Club: Friendly Brothers', Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryan, Thomas

​RYAN, Thomas, C.I.E. (1918). Educ.: Cooper's Hill; joined the Service as Assistant Examiner, P.W. Accounts, 1898; Deputy Examiner, 1901; Examiner, 1907; Assistant Accountant-General, Railways, 1910; Secretary, Railway Board, 1913; Secretary Indian Munitions Board, 1917; Member of Indian Munitions Board ​1919, and Stores Purchase Committee, 1920; Financial Adviser to Railway Board, 1920; Director-General of Stores, India Office, from 1921; son of Edward Ryan, of Ronayn's Court, Douglas, Co. Cork; b. 1879; m. 1909, Edith Mary Stanley. Address: Store Department, India Office, Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Rye, John Baillie Tonson

​RYE, John Baillie Tonson, D.L., J.P. Co. Cork; second and only surviving son of late Capt. Richard Tonson Rye, D.L., J.P., of Ryecourt, Co. Cork; b. 1846; m. 1876, Madeline Charlotte, third dau. of Sir Thos. Dancer, 6th Bart. Res.: Ryecourt, Crookstown, Co. Cork.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryan, William Patrick (Liam P. O Riain)

​RYAN, William Patrick (Liam P. O Riain), Night Editor, "The Daily Herald"; b. Co. Tipperary. Associated successively with "Catholic Times," "Sun" and "Weekly Sun" (under T. P. O'Connor), "Morning Leader," and "Daily Chronicle"; returned to Ireland to edit the "Irish Peasant," 1905; conducted a similar organ, "The Peasant," subsequently the "Irish Nation," in Dublin, 1907-10. Pubns.: Starlight Through the Thatch, a story of Irish rural life; Sidheoga Ag Obair (new Irish fairy-tales: Oireachtas prize volume); Plays for the People (two in Irish, one in English); The Plough and the Cross (a novel based on the new Irish movements and ideas); Caoimhin O'Cearnaigh (a novel in Irish on similar ground); The Pope's Green Island; Daisy Dailey, or the Fairy Gold of Fleet Street; The Celt and the Cosmos; Inghean Mhanannain (an Irish epic ballad); The Irish Labour Movement. Address: c/o "The Daily Herald," 2 Carmelite Street, E.C. Club: Gaelic League of London.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Ryle, Maurice Patrick

​RYLE, Maurice Patrick, journalist; Editor "Kerry People"; an ex-Chairman of the Irish Association District of the Institute of Journalists. Pubns.: The Kingdom of Kerry: a volume of historical and descriptive sketches; also some pamphlets on local subjects. Res.: Tralee, Co. Kerry.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Denton, Henry

​DENTON, HENRY (1633?–1681), writer, born about 1633, was a son of Thomas Denton, member of an ancient Cumberland family living at Warnell-Denton in that county. Another Thomas Denton was the author of a manuscript ‘History of Cumberland,’ written in 1688, and much quoted by Lysons. Henry went to Oxford in 1653, graduated B.A. on 21 March 1656, and M.A. 1659. The following year he was elected fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, and in 1664 he went to Constantinople as chaplain to the English ambassador, serving also in that capacity the Levant Company. He returned to England when the ambassador retired from his charge, and not long afterwards, in 1673, he received from the provost and fellows of his college the living of Blechingdon in Oxfordshire. Here he died on 19 Aug. 1681, and was buried in the parish church.
In 1678 he published in London a work written in Greek by Joasaph Georginos, archbishop of Samos, which Denton translated into English under the title of ‘A Description of the Present State of Samos, Nicaria, Patmos, and Mount Athos.’
The archbishop had visited Oxford for the purpose of collecting funds to pay for the completion of the Greek church in Soho Fields, London, under the sanction of Compton, bishop of London. Greek Street and Compton Street, Soho, derive their names from this circumstance.
R. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Denton, John

​DENTON, JOHN (1625–1709), nonconformist divine, was born near Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1625, and was entered sizar and pupil to David Clarkson at Clare Hall, Cambridge, on 4 May 1646. Here he contracted a lasting friendship with Tillotson, afterwards archbishop of Canterbury, to whom he was of material service during a very severe illness. In 1662 he was ejected for nonconformity from the living of Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire, where Tillotson had preached his first sermon. Denton was subsequently reordained by Dr. Thomas Barlow, bishop of Lincoln, and presented to the living of Stonegrave, and to a prebendal stall in York Cathedral. These he held till his death, which occurred on 14 Jan. 1708–9 in his eighty-third year, as appears from the inscription on his tombstone in Stonegrave Church. ‘Denton,’ says Baxter, ‘was a very pious man and a profitable preacher.’ He published some religious and polemical tracts, and wrote in defence of his friend Tillotson against the attack made upon the latter and Dr. Burnet by Dr. George Hickes.
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Denton, Thomas (1724-1777)

​DENTON, THOMAS (1724–1777), miscellaneous writer, was born at Seberham, Cumberland, in 1724. He was educated by the Rev. Josiah Relph, and edited his master's poems when published by subscription in 1747. He entered Queen's College, Oxford, and graduated B.A. in 1745, and M.A. in 1752. He became curate to the Rev. Dr. Graham at Arthuret and Kirk Andrews, Cumberland, and there privately printed a ‘local poem’ called ‘Gariston.’ In 1753 he became Graham's curate at Ashtead, Surrey. Here he recommended himself to an ‘old and infirm’ Lady Widdrington, who persuaded Graham to resign the rectory in his favour. He was instituted 14 Nov. 1754. He married a Mrs. Clubbe, who had been companion to Lady Widdrington, and received a legacy from her mistress. Denton died at Ashtead 27 June 1777, leaving a widow and seven children. Lord Suffolk, the patron, gave the next presentation to his widow, and by judicious management she turned the gift into a ‘very comfortable annuity.’ Denton published:
* A manual of devotions called ‘Religious Retirement for One Day in Every Month,’ from John Gother, fitted for protestant readers.
* ‘Immortality, or the Consolation of Human Life, a Monody,’ 1754, reprinted in Dodsley's collection.
* ‘The House of Superstition: a Vision,’ 1762, prefixed to Gilpin's ‘Lives of the Reformers.’ Both are poems in imitation of Spenser.
He also compiled the supplemental volume to the first edition of the ‘General Biographical Dictionary’ (1761).
[Chalmers's Dict.; Hutchinson's Cumberland, ii. 419; Manning and Bray's Surrey, ii. 635.]
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Dent, Peter

​DENT, PETER (d. 1689), naturalist, son of Peter Dent of Cambridge, became a member of Trinity College in that university, but obtained the degree of M.B. from Lambeth on 9 March 1677–8 (Gent. Mag. ccxvi. 636; Tanner MS. 41, f. 90). He was incorporated at Cambridge in 1680 (Addit. MS. 5884, f. 11 b). He practised as a physician and apothecary at Cambridge, and, dying in 1689, was buried on 5 Oct. at St. Sepulchre's in that town. Ray says he was much obliged to Dent for many observations in his great work, ‘Historia Plantarum;’ and in the preface to Willoughby's ‘Historia Piscium’ (1686) Ray remarks: ‘Dominus Petrus Dent, &c., observationes nonnullas de Piscibus cartilagineis planis, præcipue de Utero et Ovis Raiarum, et elegantes tum ipsorum Piscium, tum Partium eorundem internarum Delineationes communicavit.’
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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Denton, Nathan

​DENTON, NATHAN (1634–1720), last of the ejected ministers, was born in the chapelry of Bradfield, parish of Ecclesfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1634. From the grammar school of Worsborough he went ​to University College, Oxford, in 1652. His tutor was Thomas Jones [q. v.], whom Wood calls ‘a zealous person for carrying on the righteous cause.’ Denton graduated, but is not mentioned by Wood. Leaving the university he taught a grammar school at Cawthorne, West Riding, preaching alternately at Cawthorne and High Hoyland. He was ordained in 1658 at Hemsworth by the West Riding presbytery as minister of High Hoyland. Thence he removed to Derwent chapel, Derbyshire, and about 1660 to Bolton-upon-Dearne, West Riding. From the perpetual curacy of Bolton he was ejected by the Uniformity Act of 1662, but continued to reside in the parish, except for two periods of about two years each, during the enforcement of the Five Miles Act (1665). For a year after his ejection he preached in the parish church of Hickleton, West Riding, being maintained as a lecturer by Lady Jackson, sister of George Booth, first lord Delamer [q. v.] Subsequently he preached, as occasion permitted, in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Calamy, writing in August 1713, when Denton was in his eightieth year, says he still preached frequently at Great Houghton, a township in the parish of Darfield, West Riding, where there was a presbyterian congregation. Calamy describes Denton as ‘the picture of an old puritan.’ He had several overtures of preferment after his ejection, but remained steadfast in his nonconformity. He died in 1720, having outlived all who had been ejected with him fifty-eight years before. His son Daniel was presbyterian minister at Bull House, near Penistone, West Riding.
[Calamy's Continuation, 1713, p. 950; Palmer's Nonconf. Memorial, 1803, iii. 425; Hunter's Life of Oliver Heywood, 1842, p. 316; James's Hist. Litigation and Legislation Presb. Chapels and Charities, 1867, p. 684.]
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