The Dublin merchants who most prominently lent support to the Commonwealth during the Interregnum were Daniel Hutchinson, Thomas Hooke, John Preston and Richard Tighe.
They all served as alderman, were all Mayors of Dublin, all lent money to the regime and all worshipped at Dr Samuel Winter's independent congregation meeting at the Church of St. Nicholas Within (Hooke, like Hutchinson, was an elder of the church).
[1][3] He died on 20 February 1673 and was buried in the churchyard of St Michan's Church, Dublin.
Tighe's daughter Anne after she was widowed by her first husband Theophilus Sandf married a former Mayor of Dublin Alderman John Preston.
Richard Tighe, M.P., married Barbara, daughter and co-heiress of Christian Borr Esq., of Drinagh and Borrmount, County Wexford.