1840 in Ireland

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Events

• The Palm House in Belfast Botanic Gardens is completed, constructed by Richard Turner of Dublin. It is one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse in the world.
• Bewley's established as tea and coffee importers.

Births

• 4 January - Bishop Richard Owens, Bishop of Clogher 1894-1909 (d.1909).
• 7 January - Patrick Walsh, journalist, politician and mayor of Augusta, Georgia (d.1899).
• 8 January - Henry Arthur Blake, British colonial administrator and Governor of Hong Kong (d.1918).
• 17 January - William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (d.1896).
• 27 February - Thomas Kelly-Kenny, British Army general who served in the Second Boer War (d.1914).
• 29 February - John Philip Holland, engineer, developed the first Royal Navy submarine (d.1914).^[1]
• 25 March - Myles Keogh, officer in American Civil War, later in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment, killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (d.1876).
• 26 April (bapt.) - Paddy Hannan, gold prospector whose discovery in 1893 near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia set off a gold rush (d.1925).
• 27 April - Tom Gallaher, tobacco manufacturer (d.1927).
• 23 May - George Throssell, second Premier of Western Australia (d.1910).
• 20 September - Ellen Mary Clerke, author, journalist, poet and science writer (d.1906).
• 1 November - Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun, businessman, politician, and philanthropist (d.1915).
• 17 November - Lawrence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse, eighteenth Chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin (d.(1908).
• 28 December - Thomas Hovenden, artist and teacher (d.1895).

Full date unknown

• William Abraham, Irish Nationalist MP (d.1915).
• Timothy J. Campbell, Democrat U.S. Representative from New York (d.1904).

Deaths

• 21 April - Standish O'Grady, 1st Viscount Guillamore, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland (b.1766).
• 12 June - Gerald Griffin, novelist, poet and playwright (b.1803).
• 20 August - George Canning, 1st Baron Garvagh, politician (b.1778).

References

1. ^ "John P. Holland". The Phoenix. Friday August 9, 1996. Archived from the original on 2009-09-21. http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/people/holland.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-19.