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1724 In Ireland
Events from the year 1724 in Ireland Incumbent *Monarch: George I Events *March – Jonathan Swift publishes the first of the ''Drapier's Letters'' (''A Letter To the Shop-Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence Coined by Mr. Woods''). *22 May – a total solar eclipse crosses Ireland around 6:30 p.m. * John Neal, an instrument-maker and music publisher based in Christ Church Yard, Dublin, publishes the earliest printed collection of Irish music, which includes pieces by Irish harpist Turlough O'Carolan. Births *March 24 – Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne, politician (d. 1789) *October 20 – Thomas Taylour, 1st Earl of Bective, politician (d. 1795) *Samuel Derrick, hack writer (d. 1769 in England) *John Hely, later Hely-Hutchinson, lawyer and statesman (d. 1794) *John Pomeroy, British Army officer (d. 1790) *Frances Sheridan, novelist and playwright (d. 1766) *1724 or 1725 – Arthur Guinness, brewer (d. 1803) *Approxi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Monarch
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Colley (died 1723)
Henry Colley (circa 1685 – 1723 cites /10 February 1724) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was a member of the same family as the Duke of Wellington. Biography Colley was the son of Henry Colley (died 1719) and Mary, daughter of Sir William Ussher. cites Colley represented Strabane in the Irish House of Commons from 1723 to his death. Family In 1719 Colley married Mary, daughter of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn and Hon. Elizabeth Reading. They had a daughter: * Mary (11 July 1723 – 7 April 1794), who married Arthur Pomeroy, 1st Viscount Harberton by whom she had seven children. His estates passed to his brother Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington, who changed the family name to Wesley on inheriting the estates of his cousin Garret Wesley. He was the grandfather of the 1st Duke of Wellington. Later generations changed the spelling of the family name to Wellesley, on the basis of their descent from the fifteenth century heiress Alison de Wellesley, who was the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1723 In Ireland
Events from the year 1723 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George I Events *March 12 – the title of Viscount Palmerston is created in the Peerage of Ireland for the politician Henry Temple. *December 14 – Bernard O'Gara is selected to succeed Francis Burke as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam. *The first portion of Dr Steevens' Hospital is opened at Kilmainham, Dublin. *Avoca Handweavers, Ireland's oldest surviving business, is established in County Wicklow. Births * Mervyn Archdall, antiquary (d. 1791) *Approximate date – William Greatrakes, lawyer (d. 1781) Deaths *February 11 – Captain Hildebrand Alington, 5th Baron Alington, soldier, last Baron Alington of the first creation (b. 1641) *June 2 – Esther Vanhomrigh, Jonathan Swift's "Vanessa" (b. c. 1688) *August – William Handcock, politician (b. 1676) *August/September – Francis Burke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam *September 16 – Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne, soldier and politician (b. 1642) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 10
Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparking the revolution in the Wars of Scottish Independence. * 1355 – The St Scholastica Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days. *1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India. * 1567 – Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is found strangled following an explosion at the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland, a suspected assassination. 1601–1900 * 1712 – Huilliches in Chiloé rebel against Spanish encomenderos. * 1763 – French and Indian War: The Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain. * 1814 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Champaubert ends in French victo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Clossy
Samuel Clossy MB MD (''c.'' 1724 – 22 August 1786) was a pioneering Irish anatomist and the first college professor of a medical subject in North America. Early life and education Samuel Clossy was born around 1724 in Dublin, Ireland. His parents were Bartholomew Clossy, a wealthy city merchant, and Anne Ogle. He was educated in Cashel, County Tipperary, entering Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), in 1739, sponsored by Dr William Stephens. He graduated with an MB in 1751. After some studying in London under the anatomist William Hunter, he was awarded his MD from TCD in 1755, and his licence of the Irish College of Physicians. He was elected a fellow of the College in 1761. Career At Dr Stephens' invitation Clossy undertook autopsy work in Dr Steevens' Hospital from 1752 to 1756, and was a member of the Medico-Philosophical Society, which gave him an expertise in pathology. He also contributed articles to ''Repository''. After a period of unofficial work for Mercer's Hospit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Greville
Frances Greville née Macartney (c 1724 – 1789) was an Irish poet and celebrity in Georgian England. She was born in Longford, Ireland in the mid-1720s; one of four daughters of James Macartney and Catherine (née Coote), daughter of the eminent judge Thomas Coote and niece of Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont. By the early 1740s, she was in London, accompanying Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond. Horace Walpole's poem ''The Beauties'' (1746) mentions her as "Fanny" among the most prominent women at court. Frances married Fulke Greville of Wilbury House (Wiltshire) in 1748 after an elopement. Greville was a gambler and a dandy, but that he loved his wife is witnessed by her presence (under the character of "Flora" in his ''Maxims, Characters, and Reflections'' (1756)). Frances is believed to have contributed to the volume herself. Frances Greville's own career as an amateur poet was marked by one resounding success: her poem, "Prayer for Indifference", first published in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1762 In Ireland
Events from the year 1762 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *February – Roman Catholic nobility and gentry offer support to King George III in the Seven Years' War in the Iberian Peninsula. *20 March – a French privateer takes six ships off Youghal. *30 April – acts grant security to Protestants who have acquired property from Catholics. * Old St. Thomas's Church, Dublin, in Marlborough Street, is completed. *Watt distillery in Derry is established; it will produce Tyrconnell (whiskey). Arts and literature *14 May – Charles Macklin's ''The True-Born Irishman'' is first performed at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin. *Approximate date – James Barry paints ''Baptism of the King of Cashel''. Births *11 January – Andrew Cherry, playwright, songwriter, actor and theatrical manager (died 1812 in Wales). *24 February – Gideon Ouseley, Methodism's 'apostle to the Irish' (died 1839). *20 May – Eyre Coote, British Army officer (died 1832). *1 June – Edmun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Blakeney (died 1762)
Robert Blakeney (c. 1724 – 30 December 1762) was an Irish Member of Parliament. He was born the son of John Blakeney and Grace Persse and was the brother of Theophilus, John and William Blakeney. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Athenry from 1747 to his death. He served as High Sheriff of County Galway The High Sheriff of County Galway was the Sovereign's judicial representative in County Galway. Initially an office for lifetime, assigned by the Sovereign, the High Sheriff became annually appointed from the Provisions of Oxford in 1258. Besi ... in 1754. He married Gertrude Blakeney, daughter of Major Robert Blakeney on 28 May 1752. Their son John Blakeney also later sat as an MP for the borough. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Blakeney, Robert 1720s births 1762 deaths Politicians from County Galway Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 High Sheriffs of County Galway Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1803 In Ireland
Events from the year 1803 in Ireland. Events *23 July – Emmet's insurrection: United Irishman Robert Emmet stages a rising in Dublin which is quelled by the military, with approximately fifty rebels and twenty soldiers dead. The Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Lord Kilwarden, is hacked to death. Neither Michael Dwyer (from County Wicklow), nor Thomas Russell (in the North), nor rebels from Kildare, are able to offer support for the rebellion as planned. *25 August – Emmet is captured near Harold's Cross. *19 September – Emmet, found guilty of high treason at the Sessions House, Dublin, delivers his '' Speech from the Dock'', including the phrase "Let no man write my epitaph." *20 September – Emmet is hanged in Thomas Street, Dublin. *21 October – Thomas Russell, co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen, is hanged at Downpatrick Gaol. *December – the Wicklow rebel leader Michael Dwyer capitulates to the government and is held in Kilmainham Gaol. *The new Bank of Irel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1725 In Ireland
Events from the year 1725 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George I Events *June 24 – first recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.''Dublin Weekly Journal'' 26 June 1725. *Irish Presbyterian ministers who refuse to subscribe at ordination to the Westminster Confession form the Presbytery of Antrim. Births *May 15 – James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782) *September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779) *September 28 ''(possible date)'' – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803) *December 20 – John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1791) *Robert Hellen, English-born lawyer and politician (d. 1793) * Alexander McNutt, British Army officer and coloniser of Nova Scotia (d. 1811) Deaths *March 31 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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