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1735 In Ireland
Events from the year 1735 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George II Events *c. December – Bishop George Berkeley's economic text ''The Querist'' begins publication anonymously in Dublin. *Construction of the Magazine Fort in Phoenix Park, Dublin, begins. * Thomas Carte's ''An History of the Life of James, Duke of Ormonde'' begins publication in London. Arts and literature *The first known printed poetry by an Ulster Scots writer (in the Habbie stanza form) is published in a broadsheet in Strabane. Births *27 February – Thomas Conway, soldier of fortune (d. 1795) *19 July – Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, politician and composer (d. 1781) *22 September – Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan, politician (d. 1799) * William Blakeney, British Army officer and politician (d. 1804) * Thomas Busby, soldier and innkeeper (d. 1798) *Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1772) *Patrick Duigenan, lawyer and politician (d. 1816) *John McCausland, politician (d. 1804) ... [...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] |
Garret Wesley, 1st Earl Of Mornington
Garret Colley Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington (19 July 1735 – 22 May 1781) was an Anglo-Irish politician and composer, as well as the father of several distinguished military commanders and politicians of Great Britain and Ireland. Early life Wesley was born at the family estate of Dangan Castle, near Summerhill, a village near Trim in County Meath, Ireland.C.F.J. Hankinson, editor, ''DeBretts Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 147th year'' (London, U.K.: Odhams Press, 1949), page 1100. He was a son of Richard Wesley, 1st Baron Mornington (son of Henry Colley, MP), and Elizabeth Sale (a daughter of John Sale, Registrar of the Diocese of Dublin).G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14'' (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1816 In Ireland
Events from the year 1816 in Ireland. Events * The Year Without a Summer – famine and typhoid kill 65,000 people by 1819. * January – First Trust Bank, Belfast Savings Bank opens for business. * 30 January – Wrecking of the Sea Horse, Boadicea and Lord Melville, wrecking of the ''Sea Horse'', ''Boadicea'' and ''Lord Melville'' (military transport ships) off Tramore in a gale with the loss of over 500 persons. * 17 March – O'Donovan Rossa Bridge, Richmond Bridge, designed by James Savage (architect), James Savage, is opened over Dublin's River Liffey. * May – the Ha'penny Bridge is opened over Dublin's River Liffey. * 18 May – the National Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children of the Poor in Ireland is founded. * June – St. George's Church, Belfast, is opened, the oldest in the city built for the Church of Ireland, United Church of England and Ireland. * 29–30 October – Wildgoose Lodge Murders: eight people are burned to death by a gang in Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Duigenan
Patrick Duigenan, PC (I) KC, FTCD (1735–11 April 1816), Irish lawyer and politician, was the son of a Leitrim Catholic farmer surnamed Ó Duibhgeannáin. Through the tuition of the local Protestant clergyman, who was interested in the boy, he got a scholarship in 1756 at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently became a fellow. At some point he joined the Anglican faith. He studied law at the Middle Temple, was called to the Irish bar in 1767 and obtained a rich practice, mainly in the area of law relating to tithes. At that time tithes were levied from the majority Roman Catholic population for the benefit of the minority Church of Ireland, and were consequently unpopular. In spite of his Anglican convictions, he provided his Catholic wife with a chapel at their home and arranged for a priest to say Mass for her on Sundays. He opposed the Maynooth Grant [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1772 In Ireland
Events from the year 1772 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *3 June – the '' London-Derry Journal and General Advertiser'' is first published. *27 July – the Johnston Baronetcy, of Gilford in the County of Down, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland. Births *1 May – Lowry Cole, soldier, politician and MP for Enniskillen from 1797 to 1800, Governor of Mauritius and Cape Colony (died 1842). *16 July – William Annesley, 3rd Earl Annesley, politician (died 1838). *9 October – Mary Tighe, poet (died 1810). *Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (died 1822). *Edward Southwell Ruthven, Repealer politician and member of the United Kingdom Parliament (died 1836). Deaths *10 June – Abraham Creighton, 1st Baron Erne, peer. References {{DEFAULTSORT:1772 In Ireland Years of the 18th century in Ireland Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet
Sir Thomas Butler, 6th Baronet (1735 – 7 October 1772) was an Irish politician and baronet. He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler, 5th Baronet and his wife Henrietta Percy, daughter of Henry Percy. Butler sat for Carlow County in the Irish House of Commons from 1761 to 1768, the same constituency several members of his family had represented before. In 1771, Butler stood as Member of Parliament (MP) for Portarlington and also succeeded his father as baronet, however died only a year later. Marriage and children On 19 June 1759, Butler married Dorothea Bayly, only daughter of Very Rev. Edward Bayly, Archdeacon of Dublin. They had four daughters and four sons. His oldest son Richard succeeded to the baronetcy. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Butler, Sir Thomas, 6th Baronet 1735 births 1772 deaths Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Politicians from County Carlow People educated at Kilkenny College Thomas Thomas may refer to: People * Lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 In Ireland
Events from the year 1798 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events * March ** Great Britain's Irish militia arrest the leadership of the Society of United Irishmen marking the beginning of the Irish Rebellion of 1798. A number are arrested at the house of Oliver Bond on 12 March. ** Lord Castlereagh is appointed Acting Chief Secretary for Ireland. * 30 March – martial law is proclaimed in Ireland. * Spring – United Irishman and publisher Peter Finnerty is convicted and imprisoned for seditious libel. * April – the "dragooning of Ulster": Lieutenant-General Lake, Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering the surrender of all arms by the civil population of Ulster, effectively disarming the United Irishmen. * 21 April – Patrick (or William) "Staker" Wallace of the United Irishmen is flogged at Ballinvreena for plotting the assassination of Captain Charles Silver Oliver. He is hanged either immediately afterwards or in early July at Kilfinane. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Busby (soldier)
Thomas Busby (1735 22 October 1798) was a soldier and innkeeper from Ireland. Busby was with the 27th Regiment of Foot during the Seven Years' War in Canada. A planned action against the French fortress at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia was canceled. Busby saw much action with James Abercrombie's first attack on Fort Carillon on Lake Champlain, and, in 1759, participated in the capture of Carillon and Fort Saint Frédéric (also on Lake Champlain at modern day Crown Point, New York). His son, also named Thomas Busby, was a member of the Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ... legislature and served as business agent for the barons of Longueuil. References * 1735 births 1798 deaths 27th Regiment of Foot officers 18th-century Irish people Irish officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1804 In Ireland
Events from the year 1804 in Ireland. Events *14 January – Richard Lovell Edgeworth's semaphore line between Dublin and Galway is operational, but is out of use by the end of the year. *11 February – the last armed rebel group of the Society of United Irishmen, led by James Corcoran, is betrayed and killed or captured by yeomen near Enniscorthy. *4–5 March – Castle Hill convict rebellion in New South Wales led by Irish convicts in Australia. *April – first boat passes through the Grand Canal throughout between the River Liffey in Dublin and the River Shannon. *14 May – Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin, opens in Cork Street, Dublin. *First Martello Tower erected in Ireland, at Sutton, Dublin. Births *Early February – James Bronterre O'Brien, Chartist leader, reformer and journalist (died 1864). *4 April – Andrew Nicholl, painter (died 1886). *7 April – James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (died 1869). *18 November – John George, politician, ... [...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] |
William Blakeney (died 1804)
Major William Blakeney (1735 – 2 November 1804) was an Irish British Army officer and politician. He was born the son of Irish MP John Blakeney and Grace Perrse, and was the brother of Robert, John and Theophilus Blakeney. As a soldier in the British Army William Blakeney fought in the German War at the Battle of Rheinberg (1758), during which he was wounded and at the Battle of Minden (1759), when he was again wounded. As Captain Blakeney he then fought in the American War of Independence at the Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), where he was yet again severely wounded. He retired at the rank of Major in 1779. He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Athenry from 1781 to 1783 and again from 1790 to 1800. He married Sarah Shields, daughter of Samuel Shields, on 6 September 1770 and was the father of Edward Blakeney Field Marshal Sir Edward Blakeney (26 March 1778 – 2 August 1868) was a British Army officer. After serving as a junior officer with the expedition t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1799 In Ireland
Events from the year 1799 in Ireland. Incumbent *Monarch: George III Events *24 January – A motion to debate an Act of Union is defeated in the Irish House of Commons, though it is later approved in the House of Lords *9 February – around 91 die when a barge capsizes at the bridge at Carrick-on-Suir. *15 February – the rebel guerilla leader Michael Dwyer escapes from a gun battle with British troops at Miley Connell's cottage, Dernamuck, in the Glen of Imaal, Wicklow. (today called the Dwyer–McAllister Cottage) *River Shannon made navigable from Limerick to Killaloe. Births *28 February – William Dargan, engineer and railway builder (died 1867). *9 August – Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer (died 1868). *12 August – Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (died 1870). *22 December – Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (died 1864). *26 December – William Kennedy, Scottish poet, journalist and diplomat (died 1871 in France). *;Full date unknown *:* ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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