1853 in Ireland

Centuries:	17th ; 18th ; 19th ; 20th ; 21st ;
Decades:	1830s ; 1840s ; 1850s ; 1860s ; 1870s ;
See also:	1853 in the United Kingdom ; Other events of 1853 ; List of years in Ireland

Last updated October 14, 2023

Events from the year 1853 in Ireland.

Events

15 February – City of Dublin Steam Packet Company PS Queen Victoria (1838), inward bound from Liverpool, sinks in a snowstorm at night below Baily Lighthouse on Howth Head with the loss of more than 80 lives.
12 May–31 October – Great Industrial Exhibition held in Dublin,^[1] promoted by William Dargan. Queen Victoria, accompanied by the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, pays an official visit on 29 August. John Hutton & Son of Dublin exhibit the Irish State Coach.

Births

30 January – Leland Hone, cricketer (died 1896).
6 February – Robert John McConnell, businessman, baronet and Lord Mayor of Belfast (died 1927).
7 February – Egerton Bushe Coghill, painter (died 1921).
30 March – Frank O'Meara, artist (died 1888).
March – John Doogan, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross for gallantry in 1881 at Laing's Nek, South Africa (died 1940).
10 April – Owen Hall, theatre writer and critic (died 1907).
3 July – Aloysius O'Kelly, painter (d. c1941).
July – Thomas Brennan, a founder and joint first secretary of the Irish National Land League (died 1912).

Deaths

20 March – Robert James Graves, physician (born 1796).
14 April – Robert Baldwin Sullivan, lawyer, judge, and politician in Canada, second Mayor of Toronto (born 1802).
21 September – Timothy Burns, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1851 to 1853 (born 1820).
28 October – Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, politician (born 1773).^[2]

Related Research Articles

Events in the year 1901 in Ireland.

Events in the year 1900 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1889 in Ireland.

Valentine Brown Lawless, 2nd Baron Cloncurry, was an Irish peer, politician and landowner. In the 1790s he was an emissary in radical and reform circles in London for the Society of United Irishmen, and was twice detained on suspicion of sedition. He gained notoriety for his celebrated lawsuit for adultery against his former friend Sir John Piers, who had seduced Cloncurry's first wife, Elizabeth Georgiana Morgan. He took up residence at Lyons Hill, Ardclough, County Kildare and, commensurate with his status as an Anglo-Irish lord, appeared to reconcile to the Dublin authorities. Lawless served as a Viceregal advisor and eventually gained a British peerage, but it was not as an Ascendancy loyalist. He pressed the case for admitting Catholics to parliament and for ending the universal imposition of Church of Ireland tithes.

Events from the year 1901 in the United Kingdom. This year marks the transition from the Victorian to the Edwardian era, with the death of the 81-year-old Queen and the accession of her 59-year-old son.

Events from the year 1900 in the United Kingdom.

Events from the year 1884 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1819 in the United Kingdom.

Events from the year 1861 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1773 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1870 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1865 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1849 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1807 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1845 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1874 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1871 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1850 in the United Kingdom.

Events from the year 1820 in Ireland.

Events from the year 1858 in Ireland.

References

↑ "Dublin 1853". lib.umd.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-08-27.
↑ Valentine Lawless – Oxford Biography Index entry

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] "Dublin 1853". lib.umd.edu. Archived from the original on 2008-08-27.

[2] Valentine Lawless – Oxford Biography Index entry

[1]

[2]