Events from the year 1721 in Ireland. Incumbent Monarch: George I Events June 24 – an act of the Parliament of Great Britain permits Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran, to purchase the Irish estates forfeited by his brother James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde. The title Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of William Ponsonby.
Births Henry Jones, poet and tragedian (d. 1770) Denis Maguire, Bishop (Catholic Church) (d. 1798) Robert Murray, merchant (d. 1786) Peter Parker, Admiral of the Fleet (d. 1811) John Ruxton, landowner and politician (d. 1785) Approximate date Richard Houston, mezzotint engraver (d. 1775) Alexander Montgomery, soldier and politician (d. 1785)
Deaths
July 21 (hanged) – Walter Kennedy, pirate (b. c.1695) September 20 – Thomas Doggett, actor and benefactor (b. c.1670) Autumn – Godfrey Boate, judge (b. 1673) Denis Daly, judge (b. c.1638) Sir John Kirwan, merchant (b. 1650)
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