← Charles Lucas, physician, MP and political radical, is born in Ballingaddy, Ennis, Co. Clare- January 1, 1
The Cornish historian Thomas Tonkin was born in St. Agnes, Cornwall, in 1678. A member of the lesser gentry, Tonkin became MP for Helston and participated in Stannary Court business. Like many of his contemporaries he was involved in tin and copper mat