1822 in Ireland

1822 in Ireland

Events

* 21 September HMS "Confiance" was wrecked between Mizen Head and Three Castles Head. All 100 aboard were lost

Births

*16 February - James Thomson, engineer and physicist (d.1892).
*21 February - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India, assassinated (d.1872).
*31 August - Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1896).
*September - Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (d.1863).
*2 October - James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at at Jhansi, India (d.1900).
*11 October - Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (d.1907).
*November - John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (d.1888).
*4 December - Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (d.1904).
*11 December - John Nicholson, military hero in India (d.1857).

Full date unknown

*Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (d.1903).
*Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (d.1876).

Deaths

*15 February - Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (b.1744).
*25 March - Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (b.1772).
*12 August - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (b.1769).


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