1824 in Ireland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Foundation of the Northern Banking Company - see Northern Bank).

[edit] Births

• 23 April - William Nash, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at Lucknow, India (d.1875).
• 28 May - Thomas Croke, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and Emly, founder patron of the Gaelic Athletic Association (d.1902).
• 26 June - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences (d.1907).
• August - Thomas Laughnan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1864).

[edit] Full date unknown

• John Coghlan, public works engineer in Argentina (d.1890).
• Thomas Henry FitzGerald, farmer and politician in Queensland, Australia (d.1888).
• Patrick Green, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (d.1889).
• John O'Hart, genealogist (d.1902).
• Charles Irwin, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Lucknow, India (d.1873).
• James Stephens, founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood movement (d.1901).
• Edward Whelan, politician, one of the Fathers of the Canadian Confederation (d.1867).

[edit] Deaths

• 21 January - Charles MacCarthy, soldier in the French, Dutch and British armies, governor of various British territories in West Africa (b.1764).
• 24 August - Valentine Quin, 1st Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (b.1752).
• 30 October - Charles Maturin, clergyman, novelist and playwright (b.1782).
• 9 November - Richard Annesley, 2nd Earl Annesley, politician (b.1745).
• 19 November - Bishop James Murphy, Bishop of Clogher 1801-1824 (b.1744).
• 5 December - Thomas McCord, businessman and politician in Lower Canada (b.1750).