Editing Celbridge (section)

===Lived briefly or were educated in Celbridge===
*[[William Baillie (engraver)|William Baillie]] (1723–1810), art dealer and printmaker, was the second son of Robert Baillie of Celbridge.	
*[[John Wynn Baker]] (c. 1730 – 1775), who established the first factory in Ireland in 1765 is buried at Celbridge.	
*[[Caroline Blackwood]] (1931–1996), writer, lived for a time in Castletown, originally with her husband, the depressive American poet Robert Lowell (1917–1977) and then with the poet Andrew Harvey (b 1951).	
*[[Henry Grattan]] (1746–1821) renowned 18th Irish patriot politician, lived with his uncle Colonel Thomas Marlay at Celbridge Abbey between 1777 and 1780. He afterwards wrote: "Along the banks of that river, amid the groves and bowers of Swift and Vanessa, I grew convinced that I was right".<ref>Webb's Dictionary of Irish Biography</ref>	
*[[Richard McIlkenny]] (1934–2006), member of the [[Birmingham Six]] miscarriage of justice case, resided in the town until his death on 22 May 2006.	
*Those educated at Celbridge include the disabled world traveller and politician [[Arthur Macmorrough Kavanagh]] (1831–1889), [[Church of Ireland]] bishop [[John Jebb (bishop)|John Jebb]] (1775–1833), and broadcaster [[Shane Ross|Ruth Buchanan]].