1850 in Ireland

1850 in Ireland

Events

*Crumlin Road Courthouse in Belfast is completed.

Arts and literature

port

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).

Full date unknown

*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).

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).

Full date unknown

*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).


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