Births

• William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney
  William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney
  William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney KB was an Irish soldier known for his unsuccessful defence of the Spanish island of Minorca following the Battle of Minorca in 1756.-Early life:...
  
  , soldier (d.1761
  1761 in Ireland
  -Births:*20 July - Arthur Gore, 3rd Earl of Arran, politician .*17 September - Samuel Neilson, one of the founder members of the Society of United Irishmen and the founder of its newspaper the Northern Star .-Full date unknown:...
  
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• Richard Steele
  Richard Steele
  Sir Richard Steele was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator....
  
  , writer and politician, co-founder of The Spectator
  The Spectator (1711)
  The Spectator was a daily publication of 1711–12, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in England after they met at Charterhouse School. Eustace Budgell, a cousin of Addison's, also contributed to the publication. Each 'paper', or 'number', was approximately 2,500 words long, and the...
  
  magazine (d.1729
  1729 in Ireland
  -Births:*12 January - Edmund Burke, statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher .-Deaths:*May - William King, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin and author ....
  
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