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Greatrakes is a surname.
Notable people with the
surname include:
Valentine Greatrakes (1628–1683),
Irish faith healer William Greatrakes (1723?–1781)...
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laying on of hands.
Greatrakes was born on 14
February 1628, at Affane,
County Waterford, Ireland. He was the son of
William Greatrakes (c. 1600–1643) and...
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William Greatrakes (1723? – 2
August 1781) was an
Irish barrister.
Greatrakes, born in
Waterford about 1723, the
eldest son of Alan
Greatrakes of Mount...
- John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, son of King
Edward III
William Greatrakes,
connected with the
authorship of the
Letters of
Junius Nicholas Monro...
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FitzGibbon (classics, 1858),
renowned Irish barrister and judge.
William Greatrakes (classics, 1744),
barrister and
supposed author of the
Letters of Junius...
- (1758–1831),
English composer,
astronomer and
mathematician Valentine Greatrakes or
Greatorex (1628–1683),
Irish faith healer Walter Greatorex (1877–1949)...
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Euphrosyne of Zweibrücken,
Swedish princess (d. 1687) 1628 –
Valentine Greatrakes,
Irish faith healer (d. 1683) 1640 –
Countess Palatine Anna Magdalena...
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operating on her head. In 1666, the
Conways famously persuaded Valentine Greatrakes, a
renounced Irish healer, to
attempt to cure her. Even
though Conway...
- (died c.1656), who
married William Greatrakes (c. 1600-1643), and was the
mother of
faith healer Valentine Greatrakes.
Phillipa Harris, who
married Robert...
- (lodestones) over
their bodies. An
Irishman by the name of
Valentine Greatrakes (1628–1682) was
known as "the
Great Irish Stroker" for his
ability to...
