1840 in Ireland

1840 in Ireland

Events

*The Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is completed. It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse in the world.

Births

*4 January - Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (d.1909).
*7 January - Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (d.1899).
*8 January - Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong (d.1918).
*17 January - William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (d.1896).
*27 February - Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (d.1914).
*29 February - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (d.1914).
*25 March - Myles Keogh, officer in American Civil War, later in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (d.1876).
*23 May - George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (d.1910).
*1 November - Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (d.1915).
*17 November - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (d.(1908).
*28 December - Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (d.1895).

Full date unknown

*William Abraham, Irish Nationalist MP (d.1915).
*Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (d.1904).
*Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet and science writer (d.1906).
*Paddy Hannan, gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush (d.1925).

Deaths

*21 April - Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland (b.1766).
*12 June - Gerald Griffin, novelist, poet and playwright (b.1803).
*20 August - George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh, politician (b.1778).


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