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Roberts.-MAJOR BYAM M. L. ROBERTS, J.P., Ardmore, Passage W est, co. Cork; son of the late Richard Roberts, of Armore, and Henrietta, daughter of Robert White, of Glengariff Castle; born March loth, 1863: educated at Clifton College, Bristol. Entere.d the Army in the late 3rd Royal Munster Fusiliers, and served in the Boer war; was invalided home, and received Medal and three clasps, Orange River and Cape Colony. Justice of the P eace for co. Cerk; farms his own land and breeds Shorthorns and Border Leicester sheep. R ecreations: hunting, and boating; member of the South Union Foxhounds and County Club .

Capt. N. d 'Esterre Roberts.

Roberts.-CAPTAIN NOI{COTT d'EsTERRE ROBERTS, Hapur, Remount Department, Babugarh, United Provinces, India; son of the late Richard Roberts, of Ardmore, P assage West, co. Cork; born October 9th, 1872 ; educated at Tipperary Grammar School. Entered the Army in the Army Veterinary Corps in 1890, and passed into the Army R emount Department in India, and is at present resident there; served in the South African war, and received Medal 'and four clasps, and invalided home in IgOr.

Roberts -CAPTAI~ RICHARD EDWIN RO BERTS, Glenbrook, co. Cork; son of the late Major Richard Roberts, of the 1st Norfolk R.egiment (gth Foot) , and who was for many years Governor of Cork Gaol; born March 31st , r874; educated at Queen's College, Corle Entered the Army in Royal Cork Garrison Artillery, afterwards transferring to the Royal E ngineers as subaltern, and returned to the Cork Artillery as Captain Instructor in gunnery; is now engaged in yacht and motor launc'1 buildin s , and is also contractor to the Government. Recreations : yachting, and marine m otoring ; was the founder of the P assage West Fi re Brigade, which has been very successful in winning several competitions.

Rev. A. C. Robin son, M.A.

Robinson. - REV. A~DREW . CRA IG ROBINSON, .YI.A. , The R ectory, Ballymoney, Ballyneen; second son of the late

Richard Bell Robinson, of Cork, and his wife, Margare t Anne, daughter of Captain J ames Montgomery Blair, of the 99th Regiment, and grandson of Lieutenant John Wynne, ot the 46th Regiment, whose father was Lieut.-Colonel John Wynne, M.P. for Castlebar 1727-47; born at Cork, in 1839; educa ted privately, and at Trinity College, Dublin; B.A. , r 860; M.A., 1865. Ordained Deacon, 1892, and Priest, 1893, by the Bishop of Cork. Rector of Ballymoney since 1900; formerly Cura te

of St . Multose, Kinsale, 1892-19°0. Diocesan Correspondent to th e Church of Ireland Ga:::ette; author of " ·St. Fin Barre's Cathedral " (Guy and Company, Cork, 1899 ); " Leviticus" (Marshall Bros., London , 1905); and" What about the Old Testament ?" (1910). Married , July 10th, 1876, Emily Anna, daughter of Thomas Jones, barrister, of Donnybrook, Douglas,

co. Cork, and has issue four sons, Montgomery Blair, Thomas J ones . Richard Arthur Wynn e, and Stuart Lennox, and op.e daughter, Eleanor Elizabeth, married to W. S. Dormm, of the Public Works Department, Punj aub, India.

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Robinson.-THOMAS R OBINSON, Castle Farm, :VIitchels­town; son of H enry Robinson, of Askinfarney , co. Wexford; born September lIth, r866; educated privately in co . Carlo:". ~1ember of the Committee of Agriculture; breeder of hunters Married, F ebruary roth, 1891, Rebecca, daughter of Samuel Wilson, of Kilmore House, Clonmel, and has issue one son, Thomas H enry Robinson.

Roche. AUGUSTIKE ROCHE, 73, Douglas Street, and 40, King Street, Cork; son of the late Michael Ro che, of Douglas Street, Cork; born in IB-+9 ; educate d privately. H ead of the firm of A. R.oche and Company, win e and spirit merchants, 40, King Street , Cork; returned unopposed as Member of P arliament for the City of Cork as a Nationalist in 1905; re-elected in 1906, and again re-elected at the General Election in J anuary, 1910.; unsuccessfully contested the Constituency at the General Election of December , 1910; entered the Cor­pora tion of the City of Cork, in 1883; wa s Mayor of the City fo r the two years, 1893 and 1894 ; on retiring was presented with a magnificent service of silver and an illuminated album containing signatures of nearly 400 of the chief citizens of Cork and County, with an Address commemorating his services as :vrayor, which include the initiation of the Poor Children's Summer E xcursion to the Seaside and Christmas Dinner , still

maintained, of whi ch he is proudest ; in r 893 . was instrumental in the Corporation passing a vote of congratulation to the then Bishop of Cork (Dr. Gregg) on his elevation to th e Primacy of Armagh, which elicited a warm p ersonal letter of thanks from the Archbishop-elect ; High Sheriff, r902-o3; organised in tha t year, in conjunction with Lord Chief Justice O'Brien, an International boat race on the River Lee in which the Berlin Rowing Club compet ed , which result ed in his being deputed by the citizens of Cork to go to Berlin to present the Cup given by the City of Cork to the Berlin Rowing Club, as a souvenir of their visit to Cork, in connection with which he was elected an H onorary Life Member of the Berlin Eo-.ving Club, and was t reated as th e gues t of th e

Emperor; Lord :lVIayor in r 904 ; entertained in that year Cardin al Vanutelli, Legat e of t~ e Pope, and was in r ecognition decorated with the Cross, " Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice," by Pius X . ; h as b een a life long collector of antiques and curios, and has amassed a priceless and vari ed collection, which forms a special department (on loan) at the Cork School of Art; is the only citizen of Cork who has been Mayor and Lord Mayor of the city.

Ronan .. - WALTER RIRKE R ON AN, East Cliffe, B lackrock, and 94, South Mall, Cork; son of the late Walter Ronan, so licitor, Cork; born in r858; educated privately, and at S tonyhurst College, and Namur, Belgium, and Queen 's College, Cork. Solicitor to the Cork H arbour Commissioner ; Notary Public and local Solici tor to the Admiralty; Commissioner for Oaths; has been instrumental in passing several H arbour and Railway Acts of Parliament relating to the Port

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of Cork and to local railway undertakings. Married, November 13th, 1888, Teresa Mary, daughter of John \Vaters, of the city of Cork, and ·has issue three sons and one daug-hter; J ohn Galway, Dorn October 12th. 1889 ; \Valter Joseph, born April 19th, 1891 ; Mary Geraldin g E lizabeth, born J anuary 11th, 1893,· and Stephen George, born April, 1900. Clubs: Cork, and Royal Cork Yacht.

Ronayne. - REV. ROBERT WILLIAM RO~AYKE , M.A., St. Peter's Rectory , Cork; son of the late Patrick Ronayne, J.p., of Annbrook, Queenstown; (G eneral Cleburne was born a t Annbrook and his mother vvas a Miss Ronayne; he fought for the south in the great American war) ; born at Hawthorne, Drimoleague, Jun e 25th, 1869; he is descended from a very old Korman family dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries, and mentioned as being mayors of Cork as far back as the I5th century; it is a custom in Youghal when head of the family dies to t oll the town bell all day; educated at Cork, and Trinity College, Dublin ; B.A., 1895 ; M.A. , 1898. Ordained Deacon by the Bishop of Cork, 1895, and Pries t by the Archbishop of Dublin , 1898; Rector of St. P eter' s, Cork, from 1905; Curate of N ohoval , co . Cork, 1895-96 ; Mariners' Church, Kingstown , Dublin, . 1896-99 ;

Rev . R W. Ronayne, M.A. Deputation Secretary to the Hibernian Bible Society,

1899-I905 . Married, in 1895, Isabella :Uauraithe, daughter of the late Captain Charles Sandes, J.p., of Carrigafoyle Castle, co . Kerry, and granddaughter of the late Captain Launcelot Sandes (Coldstream Guards), of India Ville, Queen's county, and Mrs. Sandes, n pe Coote, who was sister of the late Sir Charles Coote, Premier Baronet of Ireland. of Ballyfin , Queen's county.

Mr. J. A. Russell, J. P.

Russell. - J AMES ALEXA NDER Rt:SSELL, J.P ., Glanmire House , co . Cork; son of the late J ames Russell, of Glanmire ; born May loth, 1842; educated privately , and at Trinity ~oll ege, Dublin. Land agent ; Master of the United Hunt Foxhounds from 1889 to [895. Recreations: hunting, and shooting. Married, firstly, in 1874, Elizabeth Milward Nash, eldest daughter of Captain Gray, of Lotaville, Cork, and had issue two sons; secondly, in 1896, Frances Ann , daughter of ;VI. C. Hend]py, Mount Rivers, F ermoy. Club: County. . .

Russell. - JAMES STANISLAWS RUSSELL, J .P., Kingston Square, Mitchelstown; son of the late Joh '1 Russell, of lVIitchelstown; educated privately. Head of the firm of J. S. Russell, auctioneer and valuer, and Army forage contractor; appointed a Justice of the Peace for co. Cork, 1907; Member of the Cork County Couricil; Member of the Committee of Management of the Cork Lunatic Asylum; Chairman of the Old Age Pensions Committee. Married, October 12th, 1903, Eileen, eldest daughter of James J. A. Driscoll, of H enry Street, Tipperary , and has issue three sons and one daughter.

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Russell.-MICHAEL RUSSELL, J.P., G:anmore. Ch'lrleville, co. Cork; son of Michael P. Ruc;sell, J.P., of Glanmore; born at Glanmore, in 1845; educ'ated at Tullabeg College. Just;ce of the Peace for county Cork; has been a member of the Duhallow Hunt since the year 1866, and started a private pack of beagles in I90I. Married, in 1880, Alice, daughter of John Morrogh-Bernard, J.P., D.L., ot Fahag11

Court, co. Kerry? and has issue a son, Michael M., and one daughter, Frances, who is a canoness of the Holy Sepulchre, at Newhall Convent, Essex.

-Russell. -MICHAEL MARY RUSSELL, Glanmore. Charle­

ville, co. Cork; son of Michael Russell, J.P.; born at Glan­more, in 1882; educated at Downside.

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Ryan. - EDWAKD RYAN, Ronayn's Court, Roch estown, co. Cork; son of the late Patrick ~yan, of Gortaloch, co. Tipperary; educated at the Ch rist ian Brothers' School, Cork. Managing Director of the firm of E. Ryan and Company, Ltd., soap manufacturers. Married, February, 1871, l\latilda, daughter of th e late John O'Connor, of Ashburton T errace, Cork, and has surviving issue three sons and one daughter: Andrew, Second Dragoman, British Embassy, Constantinople; Thomas, in the Indi8n Finance Departm ent, ; Rev. Patrick O'Connor, O.P. (Father Finbar), St. Saviour' s, Dublin; and Mary, Professor of Romance Languages, University College, Cork.

Sandford.-ARTHuR WELLESLEY SANDFOED, M.D., Frankfield House, co. Cork, and 13, St. Patrick's Place, Cork; son of the late Rev. Canon Sandford, R ector of Clonmel; educated at Queen's College, Curk; M.D., M.Ch., L.M., Royal University of Ireland,. 1882. Memberof the Ophthalmic Society of Great Britain; Ex-President Laryngological and Rhinological Association; Lecturer in Ophthalmics and Otology, Queen's College, Cork; Surgeon, Cork Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital; Ophthalmic Surgeon, Cork District Lunatic Asylum; Ophthalmic and Aural Surgeon, H ospital for Incurables, Cork. Author of " Reports of an outbreak of Ophthalmia in Cork Workhouse and in Baltimore Fishery School"; "Tubercular Iritis," read before the Ophthalmic Society, London, etc. Married, February nth, 1902, Mary, second daughter of Henry J. Toulmin, of The Pre, St. Alban's, and widow of th " 91'1 Baron Carbery, of Castlefreke,

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Mr. Francis Sargent.

Sargent. - FRANCIS SARGENT, Bank of Ireland, Cork, and Monkstown; son of the late Richard St rong Sargent, M.D., of Dublin, Government Inspector F amin e and F eyer epidemic, 1847-48 ; born J anuary 1st , 1847; educated privately in Dublin. Agent for the Bank of Ireland, Cork ; Vice-Consul for the NetherlaEds for Munster; President of Coi-k Ir corporated Chamber of Commerce and Shipping; Governor of St . St ephen's H ospital, Cork; Governor of the City of Cork School Board; Governor and Treasurer of the Diocesan Board of E ducation ; member and H on. Treasurer of the Diocesan Council of the United Dioceses of Cork, Cloyne and Ross; Nominator and Member of the Select Vestry of Christ 's Church (Holy Trinity, Cork); representative from Co rk at General Synod , Church of Ireland , Dublin; for many years a member of the Committee for the Victoria H ospital for Women and Children, Cork; for forty years a

member of the Masonic Order, Irish Constitution, having been initiat ed in Lodge No. 68, Youghal, co. Cork, and afterwards joined Sussex Lodge, No . 137, Ballinasloe, co. Galway; in 1878 joined the first Lodge of Ireland, Cork, and has now attained to the Thirty-fi rst Degree; Governor of the Boys' and Girls' Masonic Schools, Dublin, and is Grand Superintendent for Royal Arch Masonry in the South of Ireland. Married, firstly, in 1870, Sophie, daughter of Francis J ohnston, M.D. , F.R.C.S. I. , and had issue five children, of whom two survive; secondly, in 1876, Lucy Elizabeth, daughter of J ames F orth K empster, of Ballinasloe, county Surveyor, Galway, and has issue surviving, five children; Francis served throughout South African "Var, Medal and three Clasps ; and Engineer-Lieutenant J ames J., Royal Navy, served in the lat e China War and received Medal. Clubs : Cork;_ County, Cork, Royal Cork Yacht, Cork, Queenstown ; Monkstown; and F riendly Brothers House, Dublin , and Sports, London.

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Scott. - J AM ES WILLIAM SCOTT, J .P. , Wes~ lands, Queens­t own, co. Cork; son of the late Philip Sco tt, J .P., of Queenstown, who was selected by the community to pres~nt an address of welcome to Queen Victoria in 1049, when she visited Cove (as it was then called) and changed the name of · the place to Queenstown as a momento of the visit ; born a t Queenstown , in 1842, educated principally in E ngland ; he and his father have been identified with t he shipping interest of the p orts of Qu eenstown and Cork for over 100 years. Mr. Scott has been Chairman of m any public bodies, and is a member of the Cork H arbour Commissioners. Married, in 1873, Ch arlotte Matilda, daughter of Joshua Rawdon , of Larchwoo d, Bebington , Cheshire, and has issue three daughters, Ruth Elaine R awdon, married, 1903, Major Freeth, D. S.O., Lancashire Fusiliers; Constance R awdon, married, 1900, Captain Kell , South Stafford R egiment ; and Vera Gilpin-Brown, R. N. Club: Royal Corl~ Yacht .