1822 in Ireland
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[edit] Births
- 16 February - James Thomson, engineer and physicist (d.1892).
- 21 February - Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo, statesman, three times Chief Secretary for Ireland, Viceroy of India, assassinated (d.1872).
- 31 August - Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (d.1896).
- September - Denis Dynon, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Chota Behar, India (d.1863).
- 2 October - James Pearson, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1858 at at Jhansi, India (d.1900).
- 11 October - Alexander John Arbuthnot, British official in India and writer (d.1907).
- November - John Divane, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1857 at Delhi, India (d.1888).
- 4 December - Frances Power Cobbe, social reformer, feminist theorist, pioneer animal rights activist and writer (d.1904).
- 11 December - John Nicholson, military hero in India (d.1857).
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- Maxwell Henry Close, geologist (d.1903).
- Joseph Philip Ronayne, civil engineer (d.1876).
[edit] Deaths
- 15 February - Pierce Butler, soldier, planter, statesman, one of United States' Founding Fathers, represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the U.S. Senate (b.1744).
- 25 March - Robert Blake, dentist, first State Dentist of Dublin (b.1772).
- 12 August - Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, politician, represented the United Kingdom at the Congress of Vienna (b.1769).
