Patrick Brontë, Clergyman, Is Born in Ballynaskeagh, Co. Down

John Hobart, The Earl of Buckinghamshire, is sworn in as lord lieutenant

Sir Philip Crampon, surgeon, is born in Dublin

Patrick Brontë, clergyman, is born in Ballynaskeagh, Co. Down

Patrick Brontë (born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish Anglican minister and author who spent most of his adult life in England.

He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years, by which time all of their six children had died as well.