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1868
in
Ireland&o=10616
1868 in Ireland&o=10616
1868 in Ireland
Events
26 May
-
Michael Barrett
, member of the
Fenians
, publicly executed outside the walls of
Newgate Prison
, for his part in the
Clerkenwell
bombing of
1867
.
Births
2 February
-
Frederic Trench, 3rd Baron Ashtown
, peer (d.
1946
).
4 February
-
Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz
,
Sinn Féin
and
Fianna Fáil
TD
, member of
1st Dáil
, Cabinet Minister (d.
1927
).
1 May
-
George F. O'Shaunessy
,
Democrat
U.S. Representative
from
Rhode Island
(d.
1934
).
5 June
-
James Connolly
, socialist, trade unionist, nationalist, rebel and Easter Rising leader, executed (d.
1916
).
7 June
-
John Sealy Townsend
, mathematical physicist (d.
1957
).
23 June
-
Francis Browning
, cricketer (d.
1916
).
9 August
-
Bishop Patrick McKenna
,
Bishop of Clogher
,
1909
-
1942
(d.
1942
).
14 September
-
Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran
,
Anglo-Irish
peer and soldier (d.
1958
).
Full date unknown
P. J. Brady
, Irish Nationalist Member of
UK Parliament
for
Dublin St Stephen’s Green
(d.
1943
).
Deaths
January to June
9 January
-
John Henry Hopkins
, first
bishop
of
Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
and eighth
Presiding Bishop
of the
Episcopal Church in the United States of America
(b.
1792
).
19 February
-
Dominick Daly
,
Governor of Prince Edward Island
, later
Governor of South Australia
(b.
1798
).
7 April
-
D'Arcy McGee
, journalist, politician in
Canada
, assassinated (b.
1825
).
21 April
-
Henry James O'Farrell
, hanged in
Australia
for attempted assassination of
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
.
19 May
-
Benjamin Guinness
, brewer and philanthropist (b.
1798
).
26 May
-
Michael Barrett
, member of the
Fenians
, executed in
London
.
17 June
-
Samuel Hill Lawrence
, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in
1857
at
Lucknow
,
India
(b.
1831
).
25 June
-
Alexander Mitchell
, engineer and
inventor
of the
screw-pile lighthouse
(b.
1780
).
July to December
26 July
-
Peter Gill
, recipient of the
Victoria Cross
for gallantry in 1857 in
Benares
,
India
(b.
1831
).
3 August
-
Charles Graham Halpine
, journalist, editor and author (b.
1829
).
20 August
-
Henry Maxwell, 7th Baron Farnham
, politician and peer (b.
1799
).
26 December
-
Richard Mayne
, barrister and joint first
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
, head of the
London
Metropolitan Police
(1829–1868) (b.
1796
).
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