Home /calendar /october /October 08, 1774On October 08, 1774 in Celtic HistoryRev henry duncan, founder of the first savings bank, born in the manse at lochrutton.Share : More From This Daycalendar 1949Edith Oenone Somerville, Irish novelist, dies in Castletownshend, Co. Cork.In her late twenties, she meets her second cousin Violet Florence Martin who writes under the pseudonym Martin Ross. They become lifelong companions and literary partners, collaborOctober 08, 1949calendar 1872John Cowper Powys, Welsh novelist, born.October 08, 1872calendar 1822Birth in Dublin of Richard DAlton Williams. He is educated at Carlow Academy and studies medicine at Saint Vincents Hospital, Dublin. He becomes a member of the Young Ireland movement and contributes poetry to The Nation under the pseudonym Shamrock.October 08, 1822
