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Maurice FitzGerald resigns as Commissioner of the Treasury (UK) over the issue of Catholic relief
Maurice FitzGerald, MP for County Kerry, resigns as Commissioner of the Treasury over the British government’s refusal to grant Catholic relief. On this date, he publicly declares that the war effort alone — referring to Irish Catholic support during the Napoleonic Wars — merits concessions to Ireland’s Catholic population. His stance highlights the growing political pressure in early 19th-century Britain and Ireland to address Catholic civil rights, a movement that would culminate in Catholic Emancipation in 1829.


Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was beheaded for High Treason
Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat who in 1715 had origninally been a supporter of the House of Hanover, and then in 1745 changed sides and joined Prince Charles Edward, the young Jacobite pretender, a step treacherous in the extreme.
