List of Famous people with last name Duiske

Piers Butler of Duiske

First Name Piers

Last Name Duiske

Died on January 1, 1650

Piers Butler of Duiske, Barrowmount, County Kilkenny was the son of Edward Butler, 1st Viscount Galmoye and Hon. Anne Butler, daughter of Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret. He gained the rank of Colonel of Dragoons. After the Battle of Lambstown, County Wexford, he was taken prisoner, and was "killed, it is said after quarter being given" by the Cromwellian Captain William Bolton.

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James Butler of Duiske

First Name James

Last Name Duiske

Died on November 30, 1564

James Butler of Duiske was a younger son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and Lady Joan Fitzgerald. In 1576, Queen Elizabeth I of England awarded him the lands of Duiske Abbey which had been confiscated by the Crown.

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