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    William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, KP, PC, PC (Ire) (31 May 1847 – 7 June 1924) was a leading British shipbuilder and businessman. He was chairman...
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  • Richard Pirrie (1879–1962), former Australian rules footballer Stephen Pirrie (born 1961), former Australian rules footballer William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie...
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  • Margaret Montgomery Pirrie, Viscountess Pirrie (née Carlisle; 31 May 1857 – 19 June 1935) was an Irish public figure and philanthropist, the first woman...
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    Alexander Pirrie and Eliza Swan and sister of William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie. He was a great-grandson of the United Irishman leader William Drennan...
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    Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury: 19 January 1904 – 1911 William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie: 4 November 1911 – 6 June 1924 Sir Thomas Dixon, 2nd Baronet:...
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  • Alessandra Mastronardi as Sofia Silvestri Derek Jacobi as William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie Neve Campbell as Joanna Yaegar Ophelia Lovibond as Kitty...
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    residents and passed to the National Trust on 30 December 1905. William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie bought Lea Park in 1909. He changed the name to "Witley Park"...
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  • Andrews, shipbuilder Andrew Mulholland, flax manufacturer William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and politician Frank Carson, comedian Nauheed...
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  • 1859). 5 June – William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, peer and Liberal politician (born 1833). 6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and...
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    3rd Baron Thomson of Fleet. Viscount Pirrie, of the City of Belfast. Created in 1921, for William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, who was born at Quebec City...
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  • served as partner of the firm alongside Sir Edward Harland, William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie and Gustav Wilhelm Wolff. During his time with Harland and...
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  • Street, Belfast. John married Eliza Pirrie, the relative of the prominent ship builder William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie. After the death of his father,...
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    Monaghan - boxer William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie Elisha Scott - football player Robert Thompson - politician Sam Thompson - playwright William Whitla - physician...
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  • politician, 15th Premier of South Australia (d. 1894) 1847 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Canadian-Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of...
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  • (died 1929). 31 May – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (died 1924). 17 June – Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, civil...
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    2015 Royal Ulster Constabulary and Reserve: 30 May 1980 William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie: 1898, the first person to be awarded Freedom Of The City...
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    daughter of Thomas Andrews, flax spinner, and his wife Eliza Pirrie, a sister of Viscount Pirrie, chairman of Harland and Wolff. He was educated at the Royal...
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  • Edmond Foley, executed Irish republican (b. 1897) 1924 – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast...
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  • Dominion Party leader (died 1997) (born in Canada). 6 June – William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie, shipbuilder and businessman (born 1847). Full date unknown...
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    a premium apprenticeship at Harland and Wolff where his uncle, the Viscount Pirrie, was part owner. Andrews' sharp wit and penchant for hard work had...
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    as Downshire House and was the London residence of Lord and Lady Pirrie. Lord Pirrie was the chairman of Harland & Wolff, a leading shipbuilding firm...
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    In March 1924 Viscount Pirrie, Chairman of Harland & Wolff, voyaged from Southampton to South America with his wife Viscountess Pirrie and her sister...
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    Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, The 3rd Earl Temple (1753–1813; created The 1st Marquess of Buckingham in 1784). The regular creation of knights of Saint...
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    businessman and philanthropist William Pirrie, Viscount Pirrie (1847–1924), chairman of Harland and Wolff. (Pirrie House is named in his memory) Mark...
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    Wellington. In 1932 the college purchased Pirrie Park from Harland and Wolff with the financial aid of William Fullerton and Hugh Turtle. It had already...
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  • Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902) Horace Plunkett (1854–1932) William Pirrie (1847–1924) Mervyn Wingfield, 7th Viscount Powerscourt...
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  • surroundings. She begins an affair with Major Charles Bryant (played by Daniel Pirrie) when he is being treated at Downton while it is a temporary convalescent...
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  • gentrified industrial magnates (The 1st Viscount Craigavon and J. M. Andrews – nephew of The 1st Viscount Pirrie). Only its last Prime Minister, Brian...
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  • created a viscountess and a baroness). The last such was George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy upon his retirement in 1983. Since then it has become more...
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  • Sinking of the RMS Titanic (though Lord Mersey, Sydney Buxton and Lord Pirrie), and Bloody Sunday (though Lord Widgery). In the Ripper case, Stephen Knight's...
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