1869 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 3.1 Full date unknown 4 References

[edit] Events

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passes the Irish Church Disestablishment Act.

[edit] Births

• 16 March - Peter Maher, boxer (d.1940).
• 27 March - James McNeill, politician and second Governor-General of the Irish Free State (d.1938).
• 26 April - Lowry Hamilton, cricketer (d.1936).
• 23 May - Hamilton Lyster Reed, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1899 at the Battle of Colenso, South Africa (d.1931).
• 29 May - William Harman, cricketer (d.1962).
• 1 August - Ambrose Upton Gledstanes Bury, politician in Alberta, Canada (d.1951).
• 30 November - James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, Unionist politician and first Governor of Northern Ireland (d.1953)^[1].
• 27 December - William Harrington, cricketer (d.1940).

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• 11 February - Patrick J. Whelan, tailor and alleged Fenian sympathizer, convicted of assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee in 1868, hanged (b. c1840).
• 2 March - Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, British Field Marshal (b.1779).
• 6 March - James Emerson Tennent, politician and traveller (b.1804).
• 14 March - Joseph Francis Olliffe, physician (b.1808).
• 26 March - John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (b.1807).
• 31 August - Mary Ward, scientist (b.1827).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Joseph Prosser, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sevastopol, Crimea (b.1833).

[edit] References