1725 in Ireland
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Events from the year 1725 in Ireland.
Events
- June 24 - First recorded meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland in Dublin, making it the second most senior Grand Lodge in world Freemasonry, and the oldest in continuous existence.[1]
- Irish Presbyterian ministers who refuse to subscribe at ordination to the Westminster Confession form the Presbytery of Antrim.
Births
- May 15 - James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782)
- September 27 - Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779)
- September 28 (possible date) - Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803)
- December 20 - John Parr, Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1791)
- Robert Hellen, English-born lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
- Alexander McNutt, British Army officer and coloniser of Nova Scotia (d. 1811)
Deaths
- March 31 - Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1669)
- April 16 - James Barry, politician (b. 1661)
- December 26 - Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, heiress (b. 1660)
- James Terry, Jacobite officer of arms.
References
- ↑ Dublin Weekly Journal 26 June 1725. "History of Freemasonry in Ireland". Freemasonry in North Munster. Provincial Grand Lodge of North Munster. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
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