1739 in Ireland

1739 in Ireland

Births

*27 September - Robert Stewart, 1st Marquess of Londonderry, politician (d.1821).
*31 October - James Gordon, merchant, soldier, and politician in America (d.1810).

Full date unknown

*Judge Fulton, judge, surveyor, politician, and founder of the village of Bass River, Nova Scotia (d.1826).
*Christopher Hewetson, sculptor (d.1799).
*Hugh Kelly, dramatist and poet (d.1777).
*Hugh O'Reilly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher (d.1801).

Deaths

*Charles Jervas, painter, translator and art collector (b. c1675).


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