John Stephen Dwyer

John Stephen Dwyer, Esq. (died 1878) was a 19th-century Justice of the Peace from an aristocratic County Tipperary family. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he is described in his obituary from the 27 May 1878 Nenagh Guardian:

One of our best known local gentry has just paid the debt of nature at the age of 72 years. John Stephen Dwyer, Esq., J.P. Castleconnell, possessed a rare combination of social and excellent qualities. He was son of John Dwyer, esq., famous as Lord Chancellor Clare's Secretary. In his younger days he had a profusion of jet black hair, which gave him the nickname of "Black Jack". Mr Dwyer was in Nenagh in 1858 during the , and was hit in the ankle by a stray bullet. He was descended from a brother of O'Dwyer, the last chief of Kilnamanagh, whose praises are sung in "Sean O'Duibhir a Gleanna". He was nephew of General Dwyer of Ballyquirke Castle near Borrisokane. He was a brother of Rev. P. Dwyer, Rector of Drumcliffe, Ennis, who is writing a history of the Diocese of Killaloe.

This branch of the family is mentioned by Sir Michael O'Dwyer, in ', "Chapter XIX - The O'Dwyers in Ireland, 1691-1803", but he says the O'Dwyer genealogies are lost and specific lines of descent from the chiefs are speculative.

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