- 1857 in Ireland
Events
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April - General election. [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 376]Arts and literature
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Births
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7 February -Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , peer and politician (d.1952).
*11 March - Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of theEaster Rising , executed (d.1916).
*19 April -Patrick Stone , Member of theWestern Australian Legislative Assembly (d.1942).
*20 April -Thomas Myles , surgeon, Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for theIrish Volunteers in 1914 (d.1937).
*19 May -William Morgan Jellett ,Irish Unionist MP in theParliament of the United Kingdom (d.1936).
*1 August -Alan Joseph Adamson , politician inCanada (d.1928).
*22 August -William Dowler Morris , mayor ofOttawa (d.1931).
*1 November -W. H. Grattan Flood , musicologist and historian (d.1928).
*1 November ,John Joly , scientist (d.1933).Full date unknown
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Margaret Pearse ,Fianna Fáil politician, mother ofPatrick Pearse andWillie Pearse (d.1932).
*Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet , civil servant (d.1927).
*T. W. Rolleston , writer, poet and translator (d.1920).Deaths
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29 January -John Connors , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol in theCrimea (b.1830).
*3 March - William Brown, creator and first admiral of theArgentine Navy (b.1777).
*9 April -Charles McCorrie , soldier, recipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (b.1830).
*11 July - John Egan, businessman and politician inOttawa (b.1811).
*10 August -John Wilson Croker , statesman and author (b.1780).
*19 September -John Purcell , soldier, receipient of theVictoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 atDelhi ,India , later killed in action (b.1814).
*23 September - John Nicholson, military hero in India (b.1822).
*17 December -Francis Beaufort ,hydrographer and officer in the BritishRoyal Navy , creator of theBeaufort scale (b.1774).Full date unknown
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Laurence F. Renehan , priest and historian (b.1797).References
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