Henry Despard, the Glossary

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1. 79 relations: Anglo-Irish people, Athlone, Auckland, Ōhaeawai, Battle of Ōhaeawai, Battle of Ruapekapeka, Berhampore, British Army, Bruise, Bundelkhand, Catherine Despard, Chief Secretary of New South Wales, Colonial Times, Cork (city), Cornerstone, County Laois, Devon, Edward Despard, Flagstaff War, Fort William, India, Frederic Growse, General officer, George Grey, Ghazipur, Hōne Heke, Heavitree, Hobart, House of Holkar, House of Scindia, Huguenots, Isle of Wight, Jabalpur, John Despard, John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1803), Kanpur, Kolkata, Konch, Lakhnadon, Maitland Mercury, Major general, Marathi people, Mathura, Māori people, Meerut, Mirzapur, Mountrath, Mumbai, Nagpur, New South Wales, New Zealand, ... Expand index (29 more) »

2. 19th-century New Zealand military personnel
3. British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Maratha War
4. Flagstaff War
5. Military personnel from County Laois
6. People from Mountrath

Anglo-Irish people

Anglo-Irish people denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.

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Athlone

Athlone is a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland.

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Ōhaeawai

Ōhaeawai is a small village at the junction of State Highway 1 and State Highway 12 in the Far North District of New Zealand, some from Auckland.

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Battle of Ōhaeawai

The Battle of Ōhaeawai, part of the Flagstaff War, was fought in July 1845 at Ōhaeawai in Northland, New Zealand. Henry Despard and Battle of Ōhaeawai are Flagstaff War.

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Battle of Ruapekapeka

The Battle of Ruapekapeka was an engagement that took place from late-December 1845 to mid-January 1846 between British forces, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Despard, and Māori warriors of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe), led by Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti, during the Flagstaff War in the Bay of Islands region of New Zealand. Henry Despard and Battle of Ruapekapeka are Flagstaff War.

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Berhampore

Berhampore, also known as Baharampur, is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Bruise

A bruise, also known as a contusion, is a type of hematoma of tissue, the most common cause being capillaries damaged by trauma, causing localized bleeding that extravasates into the surrounding interstitial tissues.

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Bundelkhand

Bundelkhand is a geographical and cultural region and a proposed state and also a mountain range in central & North India.

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Catherine Despard

Catherine Despard (died 1815), from Jamaica, publicised political detentions and prison conditions in London where her Irish husband, Colonel Edward Despard, was repeatedly incarcerated for their shared democratic convictions.

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Chief Secretary of New South Wales

The Chief Secretary of New South Wales, known from 1821 to 1959 as the Colonial Secretary, was a key political office in state administration in New South Wales, and from 1901, a state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Colonial Times

The Colonial Times was a newspaper in what is now the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Cork (city)

Cork (from corcach, meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland, third largest on the island of Ireland, the county town of County Cork and largest city in the province of Munster.

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Cornerstone

A cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation.

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County Laois

County Laois (Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland.

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Devon

Devon (historically also known as Devonshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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Edward Despard

Edward Marcus Despard (175121 February 1803), an Irish officer in the service of the British Crown, gained notoriety as a colonial administrator for refusing to recognise racial distinctions in law and, following his recall to London, as a republican conspirator. Henry Despard and Edward Despard are 18th-century British Army personnel and military personnel from County Laois.

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Flagstaff War

The Flagstaff War, also known as Heke's War, Hōne Heke's Rebellion and the Northern War, was fought between 11 March 1845 and 11 January 1846 in and around the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

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Fort William, India

Fort William is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta (Kolkata).

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Frederic Growse

Frederic Salmon Growse (1836 – 19 May 1893) was a British civil servant of the Indian Civil Service (ICS), Hindi scholar, archaeologist and collector, who served in Mainpuri, Mathura, Bulandshahr and Fatehpur during British rule in India.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.

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George Grey

Sir George Grey, KCB (14 April 1812 – 19 September 1898) was a British soldier, explorer, colonial administrator and writer. Henry Despard and George Grey are Flagstaff War.

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Ghazipur

Ghazipur is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Hōne Heke

Hōne Wiremu Heke Pōkai (1807/1808 – 7 August 1850), born Heke Pōkai and later often referred to as Hōne Heke, was a highly influential Māori rangatira (chief) of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) and a war leader in northern New Zealand; he was affiliated with the Ngati Rahiri, Ngai Tawake, Ngati Tautahi, Te Matarahurahu and Te Uri-o-Hua hapū (subtribes) of Ngāpuhi. Henry Despard and Hōne Heke are Flagstaff War.

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Heavitree

Heavitree is a historic village and former civil parish situated formerly outside the walls of the City of Exeter in Devon, England, and is today an eastern district of that city.

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Hobart

Hobart ((palawa kani: nipaluna) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly half of Tasmania's population, Hobart is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smallest by population and area after Darwin if territories are taken into account.

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House of Holkar

The Holkars (pronunciation: ɦo(ː)ɭkəɾ) were the ruling house of the Indore State of the Maratha Confederacy, and earlier held the rank of subahdar under Peshwa Baji Rao I. When the Maratha Confederacy began to weaken due to internal clashes, the Holkars declared themselves the rulers of Indore in Central India, existing as an autonomous member of the Maratha Confederacy until 1818.

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House of Scindia

House of Scindia (anglicized from Shinde) is a Hindu Maratha Royal House that ruled the erstwhile Gwalior State in central India.

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Huguenots

The Huguenots were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (/waɪt/ ''WYTE'') is an island, English county and unitary authority in the English Channel, off the coast of Hampshire, across the Solent.

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Jabalpur

Jabalpur, formerly Jubbulpore, is a city situated on the banks of Narmada River in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India.

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John Despard

General John Despard (4 August 1744 – 3 September 1829) was an Irish-born soldier who had a long and distinguished career in the British Army and as a. He was the brother of Edward Despard, also a soldier, who was executed in 1803 for his part in the Despard Plot.

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John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1803)

Lieutenant General Sir John Gaspard Le Marchant (1803–1874) was a British Army officer and governor of Newfoundland from 1847 to 1852. Henry Despard and John Le Marchant (British Army officer, born 1803) are Wiltshire Regiment officers.

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Kanpur

Kanpur, formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is a large industrial city located in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Konch

Konch is a city and a municipal board in Jalaun district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.Konch City is famous for the tapobhoomi of kraunch Rishi.

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Lakhnadon

Lakhnadon is a town and a nagar panchayat in Seoni district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and the headquarters of Lakhnadon janpad and tehsil.

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Maitland Mercury

The Maitland Mercury is Australia's third oldest regional newspaper, preceded only by the Geelong Advertiser (estab. 1840) and the Launceston Examiner (estab. 1842).

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Major general

Major general is a military rank used in many countries.

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Marathi people

The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.

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Mathura

Mathura is a city and the administrative headquarters of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Māori people

Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).

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Meerut

Meerut (ISO: Mēraṭha) is a city in the western region of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Mirzapur

Mirzapur is a city in Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Mountrath

Mountrath is a small town in County Laois, Ireland.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Nagpur

Nagpur (pronunciation: naːɡpuːɾ) is the third-largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725.

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Pā

The word pā (often spelled pa in English) can refer to any Māori village or defensive settlement, but often refers to hillforts – fortified settlements with palisades and defensive terraces – and also to fortified villages.

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Pindari

The Pindaris (Bhalse, Pasi, Maratha, Hindustani and Pathans) were irregular military plunderers and foragers in 17th- through early 19th-century Indian subcontinent who accompanied initially the Mughal Army, and later the Maratha Army, and finally on their own before being eliminated in the 1817–19 Pindari War.

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Prayagraj

Prayagraj (ISO), also known as Allahabad or Ilahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Pune

Pune, previously spelled in English as Poona (the official name until 1978), is a city in Maharashtra state in the Deccan plateau in Western India.

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Ranjit Singh

Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839) was the founder and first maharaja of the Sikh Empire, ruling from 1801 until his death in 1839.

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Richard Stovin

Lieutenant General Richard Stovin (1761 – 1825) was a British Army officer during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Henry Despard and Richard Stovin are Royal Leicestershire Regiment officers.

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Robert FitzRoy

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. Henry Despard and Robert FitzRoy are Flagstaff War.

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Royal Fusiliers

The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in continuous existence for 283 years.

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Royal Leicestershire Regiment

The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688.

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Shikarpur, Bulandshahr

Shikarpur is a town and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Sitabuldi Fort

Sitabuldi Fort (सीताबर्डी किल्ला), site of the Battle of Sitabuldi in 1817, is located atop a hillock in central Nagpur, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Society of United Irishmen

The Society of United Irishmen was a sworn association, formed in the wake of the French Revolution, to secure representative government in Ireland.

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St David's Cathedral, Hobart

The Cathedral Church of St David is the Anglican cathedral church located in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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St Luke's Church, Chelsea

The Parish Church of St Luke, Chelsea, is an Anglican church, on Sydney Street, Chelsea, London SW3, just off the King's Road.

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State Library of Queensland

The State Library of Queensland is the main reference and research library provided to the people of the State of Queensland, Australia, by the state government.

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Sutlej

The Sutlej River is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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The Australian (1824 newspaper)

The Australian (Sydney, NSW, 1824–1848) was an English-language newspaper published in Sydney, Australia.

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The Cornwall Chronicle

The Cornwall Chronicle was a newspaper published in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, from 14 February 1835 to 13 November 1880.

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The Courier (Hobart)

The Courier is a newspaper founded in 1827 in Hobart, Tasmania, as The Hobart Town Courier.

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The Mercury (Hobart)

The Mercury is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.

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Third Anglo-Maratha War

The Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1819) was the final and decisive conflict between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India.

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Tuscan order

The Tuscan order (Latin Ordo Tuscanicus or Ordo Tuscanus, with the meaning of Etruscan order) is one of the two classical orders developed by the Romans, the other being the composite order.

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Van Diemen's Land

Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration and colonisation of Australia in the 19th century.

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Varanasi

Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.

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Yamuna

The Yamuna is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India.

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The 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824.

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See also

19th-century New Zealand military personnel

• Andrew Hamilton Russell
• Arthur Carkeek
• Arthur Thomson (military surgeon)
• Charles Emilius Gold
• Charles Pasley (engineer)
• Cyprian Bridge (British Army officer)
• Daniel Bolton
• David Robertson-Macdonald
• Frederick Henry Baddeley
• George Augustus Bennett
• George Graham (New Zealand politician)
• George Phillpotts
• Harry Atkinson
• Harry Fulton
• Henry Balneavis
• Henry Despard
• Henry Williamson Lugard
• Horatio Gordon Robley
• James Everard Home
• John Thornton Down
• John Wilson (businessman)
• Pene Taka Tuaia
• Robert Wynyard
• Robert Young (New Zealand Army officer)
• Stuart Newall
• Thomas Bernard Collinson
• Thomas Bunbury (British Army officer, born 1791)
• Thomas Moore Philson
• Thomas Rawlings Mould
• William Biddlecomb Marlow
• William George Malone
• William Gilbert Mair
• William Hulme (British Army officer)
• William Meldrum (general)

British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Maratha War

• Abraham Josias Cloëté
• Alexander Lindsay (East India Company officer)
• David Ochterlony
• Ephraim Gerrish Stannus
• Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings
• Henry Despard
• Henry Pottinger
• James Caulfeild (East India Company officer)
• James Tod
• John Malcolm
• John Shipp (British Army officer)
• John Vaughan (East India Company officer)
• John Wylie (surgeon)
• Leicester Stanhope, 5th Earl of Harrington
• Michael White (British Army officer)
• Richard Jenkins (MP)
• Robert Louis Houston
• Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet
• Sir Thomas Munro, 1st Baronet
• William Colebrooke
• William Henry Carmichael-Smyth
• William Hulme (British Army officer)
• William Lloyd (mountaineer)

Flagstaff War

• Aperahama Taonui
• Battle of Kororāreka
• Battle of Puketutu
• Battle of Ruapekapeka
• Battle of Ōhaeawai
• Cornthwaite John Hector
• Cyprian Bridge (British Army officer)
• David Robertson-Macdonald
• Eruera Maihi Patuone
• Flagstaff Hill (New Zealand)
• Flagstaff War
• Frederick Edward Maning
• George Augustus Bennett
• George Clarke (judge)
• George Graham (New Zealand politician)
• George Grey
• George Phillpotts
• HMS Calliope (1837)
• HMS Castor (1832)
• HMS Hazard (1837)
• HMS North Star (1824)
• Henry Balneavis
• Henry Despard
• Henry Williams (missionary)
• Hōne Heke
• Jacky Marmon
• James Everard Home
• Joel Samuel Polack
• Nōpera Panakareao
• Pakaraka
• Pōmare II (Ngāpuhi)
• Robert FitzRoy
• Robert Wynyard
• Te Ahuahu
• Te Ruki Kawiti
• Thomas Beckham
• Thomas Moore Philson
• Tāmati Wāka Nene
• USS St. Louis (1828)
• William Biddlecomb Marlow
• William Hulme (British Army officer)

Military personnel from County Laois

• Denis Dynon
• Dermot Boyle
• Edward Despard
• George Kingsmill
• Henry Despard
• James Bergin
• James Pearson (VC)
• John Codd
• John Ging
• John Meredith (general)
• John Moyney
• Joseph O'Lawlor
• Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran
• Robert Thomas Flower, 8th Viscount Ashbrook
• Robin Roe
• Sharp Delany
• Thomas Cass (colonel)
• William Cosby

People from Mountrath

• Claire Byrne
• Daniel Delany
• Helen M. Roe
• Henry Despard
• John Codd
• Patrick Collier
• Sarah Grubb

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Despard

Also known as Despard, Henry.

, Order of the Bath, Pā, Pindari, Prayagraj, Pune, Ranjit Singh, Richard Stovin, Robert FitzRoy, Royal Fusiliers, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Shikarpur, Bulandshahr, Sitabuldi Fort, Society of United Irishmen, St David's Cathedral, Hobart, St Luke's Church, Chelsea, State Library of Queensland, Sutlej, Sydney, The Australian (1824 newspaper), The Cornwall Chronicle, The Courier (Hobart), The Mercury (Hobart), The Sydney Morning Herald, Third Anglo-Maratha War, Tuscan order, Van Diemen's Land, Varanasi, Yamuna, 99th (Lanarkshire) Regiment of Foot.