1775 in Ireland

1775 in Ireland

Events

*Henry Flood accepts a seat on the Privy Council of Ireland and becomes vice-treasurer.cite book | last=Moody, TW & Martin, FX (eds)| year=1967 |title=The Course of Irish History | publisher=The Mercier Press | location=Cork, Ireland | pages=p 373]
*Henry Grattan enters the Irish Parliament and becomes leader of the "patriot party".

Births

*3 March - Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley, politician (d.1854).
*25 April - William Warren Baldwin, doctor, businessman, lawyer, judge, architect and political figure in Upper Canada (d.1844).
*6 August - Daniel O'Connell, politician, campaigner for Catholic Emancipation and Repeal of the Union (d.1847).
*30 September - Robert Adrain, scientist and mathematician in America (d.1843).

Full date unknown

*William Thompson, political and philosophical writer and social reformer (d.1833).

Deaths

*31 December - Richard Montgomery, soldier, major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War (b.1738).

References


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