1799 in Ireland

1799 in Ireland

Events

Births

*28 February - William Dargan, engineer and railway builder (d.1867).
*9 August - Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham, politician and peer (d.1868).
*12 August - Patrick MacDowell, sculptor (d.1870).

Full date unknown

*Nicholas Callan, priest and scientist (d.1864).

Deaths

*4 August - James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont, statesman, first President of the Royal Irish Academy, president of the volunteer convention in Dublin, 1783 (b.1728).
*6 December - John Moore, participant in Irish Rebellion of 1798, proclaimed President of the Government of the Province of Connaught (b.1767).

Full date unknown

*Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet, politician (b.1722).
*Christopher Hewetson, sculptor (b.1739).
*Charles Edward Kilmaine, soldier in France (b.1751).


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