Richard D'OLIER ¹

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Richard D'Olier was born in 1737 in Dublin, Ireland to Isaac and Joyce (Keene) D'Olier. Richard D'Olier's grandfather Isaac D'Olier, a native of Montauban, France, emigrated in the 1680s to Ireland, where he married Martha Pilkington.
Richard D'Olier's French ancestors of the Olier surname included Charles-François Olier, Marquis of Nointel and French Ambassador to Constantinople in the reign of Louis XIV. On Charles-François Olier's return from a trade mission to Constantinople in 1674, he visited the Parthenon at Athens, where his accompanying artist produced the only surviving drawings of the Parthenon's sculptures as they appeared prior to their severe damage from a 1687 explosion.
In Ireland, Richard D'Olier married Sarah Rosanna Ogle and became one of the leaders of Dublin Methodism. In August 1791, they and three of their children took respite in the south of France at Montauban for purposes of improving Richard D'Olier's health in a warmer climate. When France's Reign of Terror commenced in 1793, the D'Olier family was imprisoned for nearly a year by order of Robespierre, who in September of 1793 decreed imprisonment of the country's English inhabitants. After securing their freedom, the D'Olier family returned to Dublin, where their daughter Anna Maria (Mrs. David) Courtney later wrote a memoir of their imprisonment. Richard D'Olier died at Dublin on January 7, 1816. His wife Sarah died on October 9 of the same year.

Richard married Sarah Rosanna OGLE, daughter of Nicholas OGLE of Westmeath and Unknown. (Sarah Rosanna OGLE was born in 1736 and died on 9 Oct 1816 in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.)