George Salmon
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George Salmon (September 25, 1819 - January 22, 1904) was an Irish mathematician. George Salmon was an algebraic geometer and discovered, with Cayley, the 27 lines on the cubic surface. He worked at Trinity College Dublin, was a contemporary of Hamilton and MacCullage, he was also provost of the College and achieve long term notoriety through his strong opposition to women students.
Salmon was born in Cork, Ireland.
Biography (http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Mathematicians/Salmon.html) from the St Andrew's mathematical biography site.