1807 in Ireland explained

Events from the year 1807 in Ireland.

Events

• March – Sir Arthur Wellesley is appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland.^[1]
• 18 May – exiled Irish rebel Michael Dwyer is acquitted of a charge of conspiring to mount an Irish insurrection against British rule in New South Wales (Australia), but subsequently stripped of his free settler status.
• 20 November – sinking of the Rochdale and the Prince of Wales: The British troopships Rochdale (brig) and Prince of Wales (packet ship) sink in a storm in Dublin Bay with the loss of around 400 lives.^[2]

Arts and literature

• Actor Edmund Kean plays leading parts in the Belfast theatre with Sarah Siddons.

Births

• 28 January – Robert McClure, Arctic explorer (died 1873).
• 7 March – John McCaul, educator, theologian, and the second president of the University of Toronto (died 1887).
• 10 March – James Fintan Lalor, revolutionary, journalist and writer (died 1849).
• 9 September – Richard Chenevix Trench, né Richard Trench, Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland) (died 1886).
• 27 September – John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (died 1869).
• 23 October – Baroness Tautphoeus, née Jemima Montgomery, novelist (died 1893).
• 14 December – Francis Hincks, politician in Canada (died 1885).

Full date unknown

• Robert Cane, doctor, member of the Repeal Association and the Irish Confederation, Mayor of Kilkenny (died 1858).

• Thomas Henry, police magistrate in London (died 1876).

Deaths

• 8 February – Dorcas Blackwood, 1st Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye (born 1726).
• 5 June – Boyle Roche, politician (born 1736).
• Nathaniel Grogan, painter (born 1740).
• Elizabeth Sugrue, hangwoman (born 1740s)

See also

• 1807 in Scotland
• 1807 in Wales

Notes and References

1. Web site: Norman. Gash. Norman Gash. Wellesley, Arthur, first duke of Wellington (1769–1852). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/29001.
2. Web site: Historical Coastal Walking Tour. Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council. 2012-07-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20120211081202/http://www.iopener.ie/downloads/iOpener-Dun-Laoghaire-Script.pdf. 11 February 2012. dead.