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Bury, Major William Bacon Hutton-

  • Person
  • 1914-1982

Major William Bacon Hutton Bury was the son of Edgar William Hutton and Vera Chetwynd-Staplyton. He married Bly Mildred Spillier in 1940 and had two children. He inherited the Charleville estate in 1963 on the death of his cousin Col. C. K. Howard-Bury. Hutton changed his surname by deed poll in 1964 to 'Hutton Bury'; his grandmother was Lady Katherine Beaujolois Arabella Bury. He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and Wellington College. He fought in the Second World War and was wounded twice, retiring in 1945 with the rank of Major.

Bury, Marjorie Howard-

  • Person
  • 1885-1907

Marjorie Howard-Bury was the only daughter of Lady Emily Howard-Bury and her husband Capt. Kenneth Howard-Bury. She died at 22 years of age and there is a memorial to her at St Catherine's Church, Tullamore.

Butler; William Joseph (1848-1907); Jesuit priest and teacher

  • IE IJA/J814
  • Person
  • 1848-1907

Born in Galway, 4 September 1848, and educated at St Ignatius College, Galway , he entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) on 7 November 1865 at Milltown Park, Dublin. He studied philosophy in France and theology at Louvain, Belgium. He spent three years teaching at Spring Hill, New Orleans, at Clongowes Wood College, Kildare and at St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg. He was ordained in Louvain. When the school at Tullabeg was amalgamated with Clongowes Wood College in 1886, he spent time at Tonchiennes, Belgium. He taught at the Sacred Heart College, Limerick and spent many years on the missions . He joined the community at St Francis Xavier's, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin where he spent the rest of his life. He was a gifted musician (violin) and a noted librarian. He died 3 February 1907.

Campbell; Laurence (1911-1964); artist

  • Person
  • 1911-1964

Laurence Campbell was the younger brother of the painter Christopher Campbell. While still attending classes, Laurence, a reserved person, began stone carving with a firm of commercial sculptors. He also studied at the Metropolitan School of Art, winning the Taylor Scholarship in 1935 and the Henry Higgins travelling Scholarship in 1936. This enabled him to travel to Stockholm in 1937 where he worked under Nils Sjogren (1894- 1952) and returned to Ireland two years later as a more confident man.

He won the Higgins Scholarship again in 1939 and he went to study at the Academie Ranson in Paris between 1930-1955.

Laurence Campbell showed more than one hundred works at the RHA being appointed ARHA in 1938 and gaining full membership a year later. His sculptures are in all the prominent public galleries in Ireland as well as Aras an Uachtarain, Leinster Lawn, the Phoneix Park etc.

Carol, Emily

  • Person
  • 30 Aug 1821 - 12 Sep 1906

Emily Shaw, daughter of Bernard Shaw (1775-1826) and Frances Carr (1781-1871) , was born on 30 Aug 1821 in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Emily Shaw died 12 September 1906.

Collis, Cléonice Gemadine Cooke-

  • Person
  • c. 1884 - 29 Dec 1967

Cléonice Gemadine Gamble, daughter of Major George Francis Gamble (1837-1912) and Florence Johnston (1842-1921), was born c. 1884. On 30 January 1906 she married Major General Sir William James Norman Cooke-Collis. They had one daughter, Katherine Patricia Cooke-Collis on 10 Mar 1907. Cléonice Cooke-Collis died on 29 December 1967.

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