1896 in Ireland - Deaths

Deaths

  • 10 January - Denis Dempsey, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1826).
  • 3 February - Jane Wilde, poet ("Esperanza"; born 1821).
  • 4 March - Peter Richard Kenrick, first Catholic archbishop west of the Mississippi River (born 1806).
  • 4 May - Timothy Anglin, politician in Canada and Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (born 1822).
  • 18 May - Patrick Alphonsus Buckley, soldier, lawyer, statesman, and judge in New Zealand (born 1841).
  • 8 August - William Pery, 3rd Earl of Limerick, peer (born 1840).
  • 10 August - Jeremiah O'Sullivan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Mobile (born 1842).
  • 15 August - Patrick Duggan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Clonfert (born 1813).
  • 22 September - Edward Selby Smyth, British General, commanded Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880 (born 1819).
  • 1 November - Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey, boxer (born 1862).
  • 31 December - Leland Hone, cricketer (born 1853).

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