1850 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Arts and literature 3 Sport 4 Births 4.1 Full date unknown 5 Deaths 5.1 Full date unknown

[edit] Events

• Crumlin Road Courthouse in Belfast is completed.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

• 25 April - William Melville, police officer and first chief of the British Secret Service (d.1918).
• 9 June - Pierce Charles de Lacy O'Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist (d.1930).
• 24 June - Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British Field Marshal and statesman (d.1916).
• 22 December - Thomas O'Shaughnessy, lawyer and judge (d.1933).

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• James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland (d.1924).
• Thomas Lough, Liberal politician in Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Cavan (d.1922).
• Samuel Shumack, farmer and author in Australia (d.1940).

[edit] Deaths

• 6 August - Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer (b.1782).
• 13 August - Martin Archer Shee, painter (b.1769).
• 18 August - Charles Arbuthnot, Tory politician and member of the Privy Council (b.1767).

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• William Reid Clanny, physician and inventor of the Clanny safety lamp for miners (b.1770).
• William Hamilton Maxwell, novelist (b.1792).
• Jon Riley, deserter from United States Army, a founder of the San Patricios (b.1805).