Bruff is the hometown of American missionary and bishop John Joseph Hogan.
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The following year he was made a baronet, not a common honour for an Irish judge, and said to be due to his independent wealth: in addition to the Bruff estates he acquired property in Hereford, as well as a house at Oxmantown in Dublin.
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He was born in Norfolk, eldest son of Francis Harstonge of Catton and Elizabeth Standish, daughter of Sir Thomas Standish of Bruff, County Limerick; he inherited a considerable fortune from the Standishes.