Annie French Hector, is born in Dublin.
Annie French Hector, a Dublin-born novelist who wrote under the pseudonym Mrs. Alexander, is born in 1825. She achieved great popularity in the late 19th century, publishing over 40 novels, many of them widely read in Britain and Ireland. Among her best-known works are The Wooing of O’T (1873), Blind Fate (1891), A Choice of Evils (1895), and Kitty Costello — a semi-autobiographical novel. Her writing often explored themes of domestic life, inheritance, and female agency.
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Robert Byron (later Lord Byron) died at Missolinghi, Greece.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Young Irelander, journalist and promoter of Canadian Federation, is born
Thomas D’Arcy McGee (13 April 1825 – 7 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was part of the Young Ireland attempts to overthrow British rule and create an independent Irish Republic. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, where he reversed his political beliefs. He became disgusted with American republicanism, Anti-Catholicism, and Classical Liberalism. McGee became intensely monarchistic in his political beliefs and in his religious support for the embattled Pope Pius IX.
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Nationalist, writer, and Canadian politician, born in Carlingford, Co. Louth
Thomas D’Arcy McGee (13 April 1825 – 7 April 1868) was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was part of the Young Ireland attempts to overthrow British rule and create an independent Irish Republic.
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