NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Kirwan, Richard, 1733-1812 NRA: Kirwan Richard (1733-1812) chemist DNB: Kirwan, Richard (1733-1812), chemist and mineralogist LBT ID: RiKirwa1812 VIAF ID: 14880429 LOC ID: n85089548 | B/BAP: 1733 DIED: 1812-06-01 |
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Irish chemist, educated at St. Omer; he was elected to the Royal Society in 1780 and was
president of the Royal Irish Academy in 1799. He was a friend of Lady Morgan. | |
REFERENCES TO Richard Kirwan: Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1799?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Lady Morgan to Alicia Le Fanu, 7 June 1812 in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second
Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 1:
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