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Together with D. E. Williams Ltd. modern malting plants in Banagher were build in the 1950s. The Midlands Malting Co. Ltd. was incorporated in 1968.
The company Williams-Waller Ltd. was stablished as seed fertiliser and grain merchants in 1975 in corporation with D. E. Williams Ltd..

Clergyman, academic, civil servant and politician

Fianna Fail politician and T. D. (1943-1948, 1957-1965)

The Naval and War Pensions Committee was set up in 1917 to administer national provisions for war pensions for the thousands of Irishmen who fought in the First World War. At local level there was for instance the Banagher Local War Pensions Committee.

The Banagher Local War Pensions Committee was established under the national Naval and War Pensions Committee.

Secretary of Offaly County Council, c. 1940-1945

Arthur Richards Neville was in practice as a land surveyor from the 1780s or earlier. He became Dublin City Surveyor in 1801 and retained the post until his death in 1828, when he was succeeded by his son, Arthur Neville.

Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville of the first creation, known as The Lord Moore between 1725 and 1758, was an Irish peer and freemason. Moore was the son of John Moore, 1st Baron Moore. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and succeeded his father in the barony in 1725. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1746 and created Earl of Charleville in the King's County, in the Irish peerage in 1758. He died in February 1764, aged 51, when the barony and earldom became extinct.

Reverend John Mulock D.D., was born in 1729. He was awarded a B.A. by Trinity College, Dublin in 1749. He succeeded to the Ballyard, or Bellair, estates in 1757 upon the death of his uncle, John Mulock [Mullock]. He married firstly, Emily Frances, daughter of Hurd Wetherall of Castle Wetherall, King’s County, with whom he had four children; Hurd Augustus, John, Sarah, and Frances Emilia. After Emily’s death, Rev John Mulock married Anne Homan on 18 February 1764, with whom he had three children; Thomas Homan Mulock, Mary, and Elizabeth. Anne Homan was the daughter of Richard Homan of Surock, County Westmeath, through whom Rev John Mulock acquired some of the Homan estates. He is credited with improving large tracts of land and with planting the trees on Bellair Hill. He also sponsored a dispensary and a school in Bellair, to cater for the children of the families who were engaged in the flax growing and linen weaving industry.

Rev John Mulock made his will dated 17 November 1899, making certain bequests to his grandchildren (children of his son, John Mulock) and devised the residue of his estates to his son, Thomas Homan Mulock. He died in 1803.