Dukes of Dublin

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DUBLIN

This page covers the times when the Dukes lived in Dublin.

The Dukes in Dublin appear to have been a medical family (with some sons in the clergy).

VALENTINE DUKE MD, 1812-1873

Dr Valentine Duke was the eldest son of Dr Alexander Duke of Lucan, Co Dublin. He was born in 1812, and studied under Dr. Cusak in Dublin, became MD of Edinburgh in 1836 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His first public appointment was to Baltimore Dispensary, Co. Kildare. He afterwards removed to Dublin, and became Physician to the Friends Lunatic Asylum, Bloomfield Retreat, Donnybrook. He lived at 33 Harcourt Street. He married Maria Rawson and had six sons four of whom became doctors.

William Alexander Duke (1841-1914) was born in Baltimore. He was first registered as a doctor in 1866 and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps.

Robert Rawson Duke was also a doctor. He qualified in 1868 and by1875 he was working for P&O and lived at 2 Rathmines, Co Dublin. He did not appear in the 1879 Medical Register and it is assumed he had died.

Valentine De Saumarez Duke (died 1925) went out to Ceylon as a young doctor. He qualified in Dublin in 1868. The 1875 Medical Register shows his address as 25 Idrone Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin; by 1879 he was in Kenmare, Lindoola, Ceylon. He returned to England and was living in Brondesbury in 1911. By 1915 he had moved to Victoria, British Columbia.

Mansergh Pace Duke (1851-1919) was born in Dublin on 17th October 1851. He qualified as a doctor in Dublin in 1874 and soon after started his medical career in the West Indies.

Mansergh had three daughters by his first marriage - Elmina, Francis Muril and Annie. We believe they were born in Dublin. We have only been able to find out what happened to Annie who married John Learmonth.

WILLIAM DUKE MD, 1816-1854

Dr William Duke, the brother of Valentine, practised in Lucan, Co.Dublin like his father before him. He had five sons of which Charles died young and three became doctors.

Valentine Rawson Duke (1844-1906) qualified in 1867 in Dublin and was Fleet Surgeon in Sept 1867,

Alexander William Duke (1845-1912) qualified at Queens in 1867 and was appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps in October 1868. He was appointed Surgeon Colonel on 1st December 1898. He served in the South African War 1899-1900. In 1911 he had retired and was living in Tunbridge Wells, England.

Arthur Stanley Duke (b.1852) qualified in Edinburgh in 1891. In 1911 he was practising in Fernhurst, Surrey, England.

William Thomas Duke (1847-1922) was a cashier in the Royal Bank of Ireland.

Where they lived

One of the Duke residences in Dublin was 33 Harcourt Street. Valentine Duke is recorded as the tenant in Griffith’s Valuation, 1848-1864 and gave that address in the Medical Register of 1859.

In 1875 Valentine De Saumarez was living at 25 Idrone Terrace, Blackrock, Co. Dublin

In 1883 Mansergh lived at 74 South Circular Road, Dublin.

page created October 2009
Amended 22 September 2010
Amended 13 October 2011
Amended 25 November 2011

NOTES & SOURCES

It is not known when the Dukes first came to live in Dublin. In 1749 a William Duke is recorded as an apothecary in Sligo Town. This may have been the source of the medical interest of the Duke family.

William Alder Duke (1816-1854) married Maria Rawson (1815-1888) in 1843. She was born in Dublin.

Valentine Duke mentioned in Griffith's Valuation 1848-1864.

The British Medical Journal of 26 December 1874 records that at the ordinary monthly examination meeting at the King and Queen's College of Physicians of Ireland the Licence to Practise Medicine was obtained by - Alexander Duke and Mansergh Pace Duke. This Alexander may have been Mansergh's cousin, the son of William Alder DUKE and Maria RAWSON.

VALENTINE DUKE MD, DUBLIN 1812-1873

The late Dr Valentine Duke was the eldest son of Dr Alexander Duke of Lucan, Co Dublin. He was born in 1812, and studied under Dr. Cusak in Dublin, became MD of Edinburgh in 1836 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. His first public appointment was to Baltimore Dispensary, Co. Kildare. He afterwards removed to Dublin, and became Physician to the Friends Lunatic Aysylum, Bloomfield Retreat, Donnybrook. He was the author of An Essay on Cerebral Affections of Children,which obtained the prize of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association in 1848, and of Physiological Remarks upon the Causes of Consumption. He also contributed various papers to the medical journals. In 1868 Dr Duke's health began to fail, and in consequence he was obliged to retire from practice. He died on January 22nd, at his residence at Black Rock. [ source: British Medical Journal, 22 February 1873]

The Medical Registers consulted on Ancestry.co.uk were only transcribed at 4-yearly interval

The Edinburgh Gazette for December 23, 1887 records that Mansergh Pace Duke Esq was appointed an Official Member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Montserrat on 17 December 1887.