Viscount Edmond Pery, Speaker of the House of Commons, Born

Birth of Thomas Waite, MP and Under Secretary for the Civil Department

Battle of Glenshiel, Jacobites with Spanish assistance, and government forces clashed.

Viscount Edmond Pery, speaker of the House of Commons, born

Edmund Sexton Pery, 1st Viscount Pery (8 April 1719 – 24 February 1806; middle name also spelt Sexten) was an Anglo-Irish politician who served as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons between 1771 and 1785.

He was born in Limerick, into one of the city’s most politically influential families, elder son of the Rev. Stackpole Pery and Jane Twigge. His maternal grandfather was William Twigg, Archdeacon of Limerick.