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Fianna Fail politician and T. D. (1943-1948, 1957-1965)

The Banagher Improvement Committee was involved in the development of public housing, drainage and sanitation, local industries, electricity supply and street lightning, employment schemes, local infrastructure and the revival of Banagher Great Fair.

The Naval and War Pensions Committee was set up in 1917 to administer national provisions for war pensions for the thousands of Irishmen who fought in the First World War. At local level there was for instance the Banagher Local War Pensions Committee.

Secretary of Offaly County Council, c. 1940-1945

Thomas Ryder Pepper married Anne Bloomfield, daughter of John Bloomfield and Anne Charlotte Waller. He lived at Loughton House which built in 1777 on lands owned by the Pepper family. The Pepper family lived at Loughton House until Thomas Pepper died as a result of a hunting accident. Thomas Pepper requested in his will that his brother-in-law, the 1st Lord Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, acquire Loughton House.

Arthur Richards Neville was in practice as a land surveyor from the 1780s or earlier. He became Dublin City Surveyor in 1801 and retained the post until his death in 1828, when he was succeeded by his son, Arthur Neville.

Charles Moore, 1st Earl of Charleville of the first creation, known as The Lord Moore between 1725 and 1758, was an Irish peer and freemason. Moore was the son of John Moore, 1st Baron Moore. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and succeeded his father in the barony in 1725. He was sworn of the Irish Privy Council in 1746 and created Earl of Charleville in the King's County, in the Irish peerage in 1758. He died in February 1764, aged 51, when the barony and earldom became extinct.