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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.^[1]
The office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland is the highest political office in the Parliament of Ireland; Viscount Midleton being the incumbent.
The title Baron Bessborough, of Bessborough, Piltown in the County of Kilkenny, is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of William Ponsonby.^[2]

Henry Jones, poet and tragedian (d. 1770)
Denis Maguire, Bishop (Catholic Church) (d. 1798)
Robert Murray, merchant (d. 1786)
John Ruxton, landowner and politician (d. 1785)
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- Richard Houston, mezzotint engraver (d. 1775)
- Alexander Montgomery, soldier and politician (d. 1785)

↑ Moody, T. W.; et al., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland. 8: A Chronology of Irish History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-821744-2.
↑ Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David, eds. (1990). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. New York: St Martin's Press.

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