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List Of Mayors Of Dublin
The Lord Mayor of Dublin is the head of Dublin City Council and first citizen of Dublin. The title was created in 1229 as Mayor of Dublin. It was elevated to Lord Mayor in 1665. The date of the election is the end of June, and the term of office is one year. Mayors of Dublin 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century Lords Mayor of Dublin In 1665 Sir Daniel Bellingham became the first Lord Mayor of Dublin. 17th century 18th century 19th century 1801–1840 1841–1900 The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 comes into force. Under this Act, all ratepayers with a yearly valuation of £10 could vote in civic elections and sit on the council. Dublin Corporation (now Dublin City Council) becomes the new municipal authority for the city of Dublin. Daniel O'Connell was elected to the new Dublin Corporation and took office as Lord Mayor of Dublin, the first Roman Catholic to be Lord Mayor since 1690. :1.For a period there was an agreement to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Mayor Of Dublin
The Lord Mayor of Dublin ( ga, Ardmhéara Bhaile Átha Cliath) is the honorary title of the chairperson ( ga, Cathaoirleach, links=no ) of Dublin City Council which is the local government body for the city of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. The incumbent, since June 2022, is councillor Caroline Conroy. The office holder is elected annually by the members of the Council. Background The office of Mayor of Dublin was created in June 1229 by Henry III. The office of ''Mayor'' was elevated to '' Lord Mayor'' in 1665 by Charles II, and as part of this process received the honorific The Right Honourable (''The Rt Hon.''). Lord mayors were ''ex-officio'' members of the Privy Council of Ireland, which also entitled them to be addressed as The Right Honourable. Though the Privy Council was ''de facto'' abolished in 1922, the Lord Mayor continued to be entitled to be addressed as The Right Honourable as a result of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840, which granted the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Taylor (martyr)
Francis Taylor (Irish: Proinnsias Táiliúr; Beannaithe, Swords, c. 1550 – Dublin, 29 January 1621) was a Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, who was incarcerated because of his Catholicism. He has been declared a martyr for his faith and beatified by the Catholic Church. Life Born in Swords, County Dublin, Taylor moved to the City of Dublin and married the daughter of a prominent family, being the granddaughter of a Mayor of Dublin. He himself was elected Dublin's mayor in 1595. Taylor was imprisoned for his Catholic faith in 1613, and died there on 29 January 1621, after seven years of refusing to accept his freedom by giving up his religion. Veneration Pope John Paul II beatified Taylor on 27 September 1992, as part of a group of 17 Irish Catholic Martyrs who were victims of religious persecution due to their Catholic faith during that era. A statue of Taylor and of his wife's grandmother, the Blessed Margaret Ball, who had died in that same prison for her faith in 1584, sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Rainsford
Sir Mark Rainsford (circa 1652 – November 1709) was an Irish Lord Mayor of Dublin and the original founder of what was to become the Guinness Brewery. Political career Sir Mark Rainsford was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1700 to 1701. During his term as Lord Mayor, the King William III equestrian statue in College Green, Dublin was unveiled on 1 July 1701.A transcription of the statue's plaque read: "I am seeing here the Third King of Great Britain, France and Hibernia./ For the keeping of Religious Reinstated Laws. / Bring Freedom and this Statue To the eminent citizens of Dublin. / It was begun A.D 1700 Sir Anthony Percy, Lord Mayor. Charles Forrest, James Barlow - Esquires Sheriffs / Finished, A.D 1701 Sir Mark Rainsford, Lord Mayor. John Eceles, Ralph Gore - Esquires Sheriffs" He had previously served as High Sheriff of Dublin City in 1689 and 1690. Professional career Rainsford is most noted as the original founder of the Guinness Brewery in St. James's Gate, Dublin. His b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartholomew Van Homrigh
Bartholomew Van Homrigh, also Vanhomrigh (d. 29 December 1703) was a Polish-born Irish merchant, estate agent and politician who served as the 33rd Lord Mayor of Dublin and twice MP for Londonderry City in William III's Irish Parliaments. Surviving correspondence between 1691-1700 with Godert de Ginkel, the 1st Earl of Athlone, for whom Van Homrigh served as estate agent after the Williamite War in Ireland, detail later troop movements, and various legal and financial updates. Life and mayoralty Born in Gdańsk (Danzig) in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth sometime before 1665, Van Homrigh came to Dublin from Amsterdam before 1685, and wrote fluent Dutch. On arriving in Dublin Van Homrigh worked as a merchant and was bestowed the Freedom of the City in 1685. He was subsequently one of ten Protestant aldermen and member of the Dublin Corporation by 1687, but was later stricken from the record by Dublin Jacobites for having relocated to Chester during the 1688 Glorious Revo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rogerson (1648–1724)
Sir John Rogerson (1648–1724) was an Irish politician, wealthy merchant and property developer. Very little is known about his family background or his early life, except that he was born in the Netherlands in 1648, and that his father was named Francis. The Rogerson family were probably recent arrivals in Ireland, and may have been political exiles from the political troubles of the 1640s. He lived in London in the late 1660s. He is recorded as a householder of Dublin from 1674, by which time he was already in business as a merchant. How precisely he made his money is not clear, but there is no doubt that he became a very rich man, with a reputation for being "hard-nosed" in his business dealings. The wealthy and well-connected Susan, Lady Belasyse, who had lent him substantial sums of money, found that he simply refused to repay them, and a lawsuit over the money dragged on until her death. He was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1693–94 and represented Clogher in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Creagh (politician)
Sir Michael Creagh (died 1738) was an Irish politician and soldier. Although a Protestant, he was a Jacobite supporter of the Catholic James II. He was Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1688 to 1689 and received James II on his arrival to the city in March 1689. He was a Member of Parliament for Dublin City in the Patriot Parliament in 1689. He raised an infantry regiment at his own expense to serve in the Irish Army during the War of the Two Kings (1689–91), which was present at the Battle of the Boyne.McNally, Michael. ''Battle of the Boyne 1690: The Irish Campaign for the English Crown''. Osprey Publishing, 2005. p.52. Following the Jacobite defeat in Ireland, Creagh was attainted and fled to France and then to the Netherlands. He had returned to Ireland by the mid–1720s and turned his attention to regaining his confiscated estates. He converted from Roman Catholicism to the established Church of Ireland The Church of Ireland ( ga, Eaglais na hÉireann, ; sco, label= Ul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humphrey Jervis
Humphrey Jervis (1630–1707) KBE was the first private developer in the history of Dublin. He was Lord Mayor of Dublin during the reign of Charles II of England. Life Jervis was born in 1630 in Ollerton, Shropshire. He was one of the younger sons of John Jervys of Chatkyll in Staffordshire and Elizabeth Jervys. He was baptized at the Church of All Saints in Standon, Staffordshire on the 11 July 1630. Humphrey Jervis was a ship-owner and merchant as well as an architect and a freeman of the city of Dublin. Later on he became Lord Mayor of the city between 1681 and 1682. He was knighted for his services in 1681. He died in 1707 in Dublin and is buried in St. Mary's, Dublin. The family name Jervis originates from the Norman name Gervase. Career Dublin during the reign of Charles II Humphrey Jervis is notable for having developed the area of Dublin to the north of the River Liffey. It was the first large-scale residential scheme of its kind, born out of his own in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brewster (lord Mayor)
Sir Francis Brewster ( fl. 1674–1702) was a writer on trade, and a citizen and alderman of Dublin, Ireland. He was lord mayor of the city in 1674. Case against public abuses In February 1692–1693 Brewster gave evidence before the Irish House of Commons on certain public abuses in Ireland, and in 1698 was appointed one of seven commissioners to inquire into the forfeited estates in Ireland. The commissioners disagreed among themselves, and when the report was delivered in the following year it was signed by only four of the members of the commission; the other three, the Earl of Drogheda, Sir Richard Levinge, and Sir F. Brewster, having refused to sign it because they thought it false and ill-grounded in several particulars. The dispute was brought before parliament, and Sir R. Levinge was committed to the Tower A tower is a tall Nonbuilding structure, structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from guyed mast, masts by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Adryan Verneer
Sir Hubert Adryan Verneer was Mayor of Dublin from 1660 to 1661. Adryan was born in Dublin in 1627 and educated at Trinity College Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860 George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir Thomas Ulick Sadleir (1882–1957) was an Irish genealogist and heraldic expert. He was successively registrar of the Order of St Patrick, Deputy Ulster King of Arms and Acting Ulster King of Arms. Career Sadleir's first involvement with the of ... p4: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was admitted a Freeman of the City of Dublin in 1648. He assumed the additional name of Verneer and was knighted in 1661. References Lord Mayors of Dublin Irish knights 1627 births Year of death unknown {{Ireland-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hooke (mayor)
Thomas Hooke (15??–1670) was a successful merchant and significant figure in Dublin politics from the 1640s until his death. He appeared in Dublin's civic records first in 1637. Hooke made his fortune selling herrings and cheese to the English Parliamentary army in Ireland. He was elected Mayor of Dublin in 1654. His close connections with the Cromwellian administration in the city brought him a succession of positions of power and influence - justice of the peace, revenue commissioner, commissioner for probate of wills and farmer of the petty customs of Dublin, as well as commissioner of the Civil Survey for the county of Dublin. Religiously he was Independent and an elder of the congregation of St Nicholas-within-the-walls, close to his house on Castle Street. Corballis House and Kilsallaghan Estate in north County Dublin was granted to him as part of the Cromwellian land settlement. Following the restoration of Charles II in 1660, Hooke's ownership of the house, along with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Hutchinson
Daniel Hutchinson ('' fl.'' 1650s) was an Irish Protestant Dublin merchant who supported the Cromwellian Occupation of Ireland. During the Interregnum he served as Mayor of Dublin, a member of parliament of the Barebones and First Protectorate parliaments, Sheriff of County Dublin and Wicklow, and as Treasurer of Public Revenue in Ireland. Biography Hutchinson served as Mayor of Dublin in 1652 (during which time he was ordered to form a committee with Jerome Sankey to encourages demobbed English parliamentary soldiers and other who supported the English Parliamentary cause to settle in Ireland). He was one of six Irish members of the Barebones Parliament in 1653. During the same year he was a member of a committee to oversee laws relating to the poor. In 1655 Hutchinson was a member of a committee, with two other Dublin merchants Thomas Hooke and John Preston, to act as treasurers for the collection for the Waldensians (Protestants who were at that time being persecuted in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
