'William Ievers (1818-1901), estate agent, was born on 22 December 1818 at Limerick, Ireland, son of George Hawkins Ievers of Mount Ievers, County Clare, and his wife Margaret, née O'Shaughnessy. The Ievers were a prominent Anglican county family and claimed descent from a sixteenth-century English peer. Ievers early became a Roman Catholic, following his mother's religion; he may also have been influenced by the Oxford movement. Although his family wanted him to be a doctor he joined the navy at 15. He saw action in Constantinople, the Greek archipelago and in 1836-37 the wars of the Spanish succession. He married Mary Harrison of Limerick on 26 July 1838. In that year he transferred to the mercantile marine and as a master sailed to the Spanish Main, Chile, Peru, Canada and the South Seas. Sometime before 1848 he retired from the sea and settled in Dublin as a merchant.' (Source : ADB)
