1725 in Ireland

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1725
in
Ireland

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
See also:Other events of 1725
List of years in Ireland

Events from the year 1725 in Ireland.

Incumbent[]

  • Monarch: George I

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 15James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782)
  • September 27Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779)
  • September 28 (possible date)Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803)
  • December 20John 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 31Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1669)
  • April 16James Barry, politician (b. 1661)
  • December 26Katherine FitzGerald, Viscountess Grandison, heiress (b. 1660)
  • James Terry, Jacobite officer of arms.

References[]

  1. ^ 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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