page_title: St. Bride's Church, Dublin
section_title: Notable parishioners
hierarchical_section_title: St. Bride's Church, Dublin / Notable parishioners
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir William Petty (1623-1687) poses in this painting. He holds a skull in his right hand while his left hand rests on plate 3 of Adriaan van den Spiegel's De Humani Corporis Fabrica [On the Fabric of the Human Body] (1627).
context_page_description: St. Bride's Church was a Church of Ireland church located in Bride St., Dublin, Ireland. It was closed in 1898 and demolished to make way for social housing.
context_section_description: Sir William Petty (1623–1687) while in Dublin was a pew-holder, vault-owner and prominent member of the parish. He lived firstly in Exchequer St., then on the north side of St. Stephen's Green, where the Shelbourne Hotel now stands.\
  Sir Edward Bolton, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, was buried here in 1659.
  The writer and politician Sir Richard Steele was christened in St. Bride's parish Church on 12 March 1672.
  Arthur Keene (died 1818), a prominent member of the Methodist community in Dublin in its early days, was married to his wife Isabella by John Wesley in this church in April 1775.
  Many members of the Lloyd family of New Ross, two of whom (Bartholomew Lloyd (1772–1837) and his son Humphrey Lloyd) were provosts of Trinity College, Dublin, were baptized, married or buried in this church. These included Dr Thomas Lloyd (baptized 1756), Christopher Lloyd, Dean of Elphin (buried 1787) and Alderman Edward Lloyd, Lord Mayor.
  The Rev. Peter Le Fanu (1749–1825), a relative of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu became curate in this parish in the 1770s. He became known as one of the most popular preachers in Dublin and was also a playwright.
  Several members of the Domville family were parishioners: perhaps the most eminent of them, Sir William Domville, the father-in-law of William Molyneux, and for many years Attorney General for Ireland, wrote A Disquisition Touching That Great Question Whether an Act of Parliament Made in England Shall Bind the Kingdom and People of Ireland Without Their Allowance and Acceptance of Such Act in the Kingdom of Ireland, which influenced Molyneux. William was the son of Gilbert Domville (1565–1624), who came to Ireland from Cheshire during the reign of James I.
  A highly regarded rector of St. Bride's in the second half of the 19th century was the Rev. William George Carroll (1821–1885), historian and writer. He was an uncle of George Bernard Shaw and was the first Protestant clergyman in Ireland to declare for Home Rule. He collected a large amount of information regarding his church and parish, discovering a mine of wealth in the old registers, dating back to 1633. It is considered one of the most valuable parochial collections in Ireland.
caption: William Petty, c. 1650.
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