1774 in Ireland

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Contents 1 Events 2 Births 2.1 Full date unknown 3 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Armagh County Infirmary founded by Richard Robinson, 1st Baron Rokeby.

[edit] Births

• 7 May - Francis Beaufort, hydrographer and officer in the British Royal Navy, creator of the Beaufort scale (d.1857).
• 11 July - Somerset Lowry-Corry, 2nd Earl Belmore, politician and statesman (d.1841).
• 29 December - Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry, Whig politician (d.1849).

[edit] Full date unknown

• Máire Bhuí Ní Laoghaire, poet (d.c1849).
• Bartholomew Teeling, a leader of the Irish forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (d.1798).

[edit] Deaths

• 4 April - Oliver Goldsmith, novelist and playwright (b.1728 or 1730).
• 11 July - Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, pioneer and army officer in colonial New York (b.1715).
• 27 December - Henry Mossop, actor (b.1729).
• Sir Robert Blackwood, 1st Baronet (b.1694).