Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke
Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke( 1580? – June/ July 1646), known from 1618 until 1624 as 4th Baron St John of Bletso, was an English nobleman and politician.
Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso
Oliver St John, 3rd Baron St John of Bletso( c. 1540–1618) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1588 until 1596 when he inherited the peerage as Baron St John of Bletso.
St John was a son of Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso, and Agnes Fisher.
He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire in 1585.
In 1588 he was elected Member of Parliament for Bedfordshire.
He was High Sheriff of Bedfordshire again in 1589 and was re-elected MP for Bedfordshire in 1593.
He succeeded to the barony on the death of his brother John without male issue on 23 October 1596.
He was Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire from April 1597 until his death.
St John married Dorothy Reid, daughter of Sir John Rede or Reid, of Odington, Gloucestershire.
They had eight sons and seven daughters:
His eldest son Oliver inherited the Barony and became Earl of Bolingbroke.
Of his remaining sons, John and Dudley died young, while the remaining five all became Members of Parliament.
Steele MacKaye
James Morrison Steele MacKaye (June 6, 1842 – February 25, 1894) was an American playwright, actor, theater manager and inventor.
Having acted, written, directed and produced numerous and popular plays and theatrical spectaculars of the day, he became one of the most famous actors and theater producers of his generation.
Oliver St John, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke
Oliver St John, 2nd Earl of Bolingbroke( bef. 1634 – 18 March 1688), styled Lord St John of Bletsoe from 1642 to 1646, was a British peer and landowner in Bedfordshire.
The eldest son of Sir Paulet St John( d. 1638) and his wife Elizabeth Vaughan, he became heir apparent to his grandfather, Oliver St John, 1st Earl of Bolingbroke, after the death of his uncle Oliver St John, 5th Baron St John of Bletso at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642.
On 24 November 1654, he married Lady Frances Cavendish( d. 15 August 1678), the daughter of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle- upon- Tyne, by whom he had no children.
The St John family were Presbyterians and supported Parliament during the English Civil War, but did not take part in government during the Interregnum.
In 1661, he succeeded his relative Samuel Browne as recorder of Bedford, and took the oath against the Covenant upon becoming a freeman of the town.
He was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Bedfordshire in 1667 after the death of the 1st Earl of Cleveland; the Earl of Ailesbury was added as a joint holder of the office in 1671, and Bolingbroke was removed from the office by James II in 1681.
Bolingbroke died childless on 18 March 1688 and was buried at Bletsoe.
He was succeeded by his younger brother, Paulet St John.
Oliver St. John Gogarty
Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty( 17 August 1878 – 22 September 1957) was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well- known conversationalist.
He served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel" Ulysses".
Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison
Sir Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (1559 – 30 December 1630) was an English soldier and politician who became Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Donald Morrogh
Donald Morrogh was an Irish soccer player during the 1890s.
He played for the amateur Bohemians during these times alongside the likes of Robert Murray, Oliver St. John Gogarty and the Sheehan brothers, George and Willie.
Donald won one full international caps for the Ireland team, in 1896.
Morrogh also played a part in Bohemians' 6 Leinster Senior Cup final victories in a row during the 1890s.
Johanna St John
Johanna St John( 1631–1705) was an English gardener and herbalist, and the eldest daughter of a notable Parliamentarian, Oliver St John.
She would eventually marry Sir Walter St John, a distant relative.
Throughout her life, St John constructed two recipe books containing culinary, cosmetic, and medicinal recipes.
She was the grandmother to the first Viscount Bolingbroke, Henry St John.
Dermot St. John Gogarty
Dermot St. John Gogarty, RIAI, RIBA,( born 1908) was a well- known Irish architect of Dublin and Galway active throughout mid-twentieth- century Ireland.
He was the second son of Oliver St John Gogarty, and educated at Downside and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
He apprenticed under Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens( 1869 – 1944), and worked for Vincent Kelly.
He established his practice in Dublin in 1936, and then moved to Galway in 1948.
Oliver St John, 1st Baron St John of Bletso
Oliver St John of Bletsoe, 1st Baron St John of Bletso( c. 1522 – 21 April 1582) was an English peer.
He was the son of Sir John St John( born 1498) of Bletsoe and Spelsbury and his first wife Margaret, the daughter of Sir William Waldegrave.
His paternal great- great- great- grandfather Sir Oliver St John of Bletsoe, Spelsbury and Lydiard Tregoze( d. 1437) was the husband of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso, great- great- granddaughter of Roger de Beauchamp, who was summoned to Parliament as Baron Beauchamp of Bletso from 1363 to 1379.
Since then that title had not been assumed, although St John was considered to be the line of heir.
On 13 January 1559 he was raised to the peerage himself as Baron St John of Bletso, in the county of Bedfordshire.

Question: Do Steele MacKaye and Oliver St. John Gogarty have the same nationality?
Answer: no