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List of events
Events from the year 1857 in Ireland.
Events
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Births
- 7 February –
Windham Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, peer and politician (died
1952).
- 12 February –
Margaret Pearse,
Fianna Fáil politician, mother of
Patrick Pearse and
Willie Pearse (died
1932).
- 11 March –
Tom Clarke, nationalist, rebel and organiser of the
Easter Rising (executed
1916).
- 17 April –
Jane Barlow, poet and novelist (died
1917).
- 19 April –
Patrick Stone, Member of the
Western Australian Legislative Assembly (died
1942 in Australia).
- 20 April –
Thomas Myles, surgeon,
Home Ruler, involved in importation of arms for the
Irish Volunteers in 1914 (died
1937).
- 22 April (probable year) –
Ada Rehan, actress (died
1916 in the United States).
- 1 May –
T. W. Rolleston, writer, poet and translator (died
1920).
- 19 May –
William Morgan Jellett,
Irish Unionist
MP in the
Parliament of the United Kingdom (died
1936).
- 11 July –
Joseph Larmor, physicist (died
1942).
- 1 August –
Alan Joseph Adamson, politician in Canada (died
1928).
- 22 August –
William Dowler Morris, mayor of
Ottawa (died
1931).
- 5 October –
Peadar Mac Fhionnlaoich, Irish language writer (died
1942).
- 1 November
- 18 November –
Stanhope Forbes, painter (died
1947 in the United Kingdom).
- 20 November –
Sir Henry Robinson, 1st Baronet, civil servant (died
1927).
Deaths
- 29 January –
John Connors, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at
Sebastopol in the
Crimea (born
1830).
- 3 March –
William Brown, creator and first admiral of the
Argentine Navy (born
1777).
- 9 April –
Charles McCorrie, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1855 at Sebastopol, in the Crimea (born
1830).
- 11 July –
John Egan, businessman and politician in
Ottawa (born
1811).
- 27 July –
Laurence F. Renehan, priest and historian (born
1797).
- 10 August –
John Wilson Croker, statesman and author (born
1780).
- 19 September –
John Purcell, soldier, recipient of the
Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at
Delhi, India, later killed in action (born
1814).
- 23 September –
John Nicholson, military hero in India (born
1822).
- 17 December –
Francis Beaufort,
hydrographer and officer in the
British
Royal Navy, creator of the
Beaufort scale (born
1774).
See also
References