Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne

Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, was born at 22 Merrion Square, Dublin, on 4 September 1837. The marble front still stands behind busy shops, but the boy who ran those pavements grew into the law-maker who reshaped Irish land ownership. Ashbourne remains a title rather than a house, yet the street remembers the first rooms where that power began.