1725 in Ireland

Events from the year 1725 in Ireland.

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Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	Other events of 1725 List of years 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 15 – James Fortescue, politician (d. 1782)
• September 27 – Patrick d'Arcy, mathematician (d. 1779)
• September 28 (possible date) – Arthur Guinness, brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business and family (d. 1803)
• December 20 – John 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 31 – Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton, Chancellor of the Exchequer of England and Lord Treasurer of Ireland (b. 1669)
• April 16 – James Barry, politician (b. 1661)
• December 26 – Katherine 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.