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  • 27 September - Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry
    Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry
    Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry PC , was an Irish politician and landowner, the father of politician Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh.-Early life in Dublin:...

    , politician (d.1821
    1821 in Ireland
    -Events:*28 December - Sandycove Lifeboat disaster - four lifeboatmen drowned attempting to rescue Ellen of Liverpool-Births:*20 January - Dennis Mahony, one of the founders of the Dubuque Herald , a newspaper in Dubuque, Iowa .*20 February - Miles Gerard Keon, journalist, novelist, colonial...

    ).
  • 31 October - James Gordon
    James Gordon (New York)
    James Gordon was an Irish-born American merchant, soldier, and politician.He was born in Killead, County Antrim, Ireland, and left in 1758, settling in Schenectady, New York. From that base and from Detroit, Michigan, he traded with various Native American tribes...

    , merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d.1810
    1810 in Ireland
    -Births:*3 January - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, geographer .*10 March - Samuel Ferguson, poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant .*3 June - Robert Mallet, geologist, civil engineer and inventor ....

    ).

Full date unknown

  • Judge Fulton
    Judge Fulton
    ----James "Judge" Fulton was justice of the peace, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia....

    , judge
    Judge
    A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

    , surveyor, politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia
    Bass River, Nova Scotia
    Bass River is an unincorporated rural community in western Colchester County, north-central Nova Scotia, in the Maritimes of Canada.-Location:...

     (d.1826
    1826 in Ireland
    -Events:*In the General Election four counties elected supporters of Catholic Emancipation.*The Landlord and Tenant Act 1826 is passed.*First life-boat stationed in Ireland by the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, at Arklow.-Births:*March - James P...

    ).
  • Christopher Hewetson
    Christopher Hewetson
    Christopher Hewetson was a neoclassical sculptor of portrait busts. Born in Ireland, he was active in Rome.-Biography:Hewetson was born in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland. He studied in Dublin under John van Nost the younger....

    , sculptor (d.1799
    1799 in Ireland
    -Births:*1799 Joseph M. Hawkins, Alamo Defender .*28 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder .*9 August - Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer .*12 August - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor .-Deaths:...

    ).
  • Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d.1777
    1777 in Ireland
    -Births:*4 May - Richard Bourke, soldier and Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1831 to 1837 .*22 June - William Brown, creator and first admiral of the Argentine Navy .-Deaths:*3 February - Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet ....

    ).
  • Hugh O'Reilly
    Hugh O'Reilly
    Hugh O'Reilly, , was an Irish leader. He was consecrated as Bishop of Kilmore in July 1625 and translated to Armagh on 5 May 1628....

    , Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d.1801
    1801 in Ireland
    -Events:* January 1 - Legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....

    ).

Deaths

  • Charles Jervas
    Charles Jervas
    Charles Jervas [Jarvis] was an Irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector of the early 18th century.-Early life:...

    , painter, translator and art collector (b. c1675).
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