On this day

October 08

October 8, 1774

Rev Henry Duncan, Founder of the First Savings Bank, Born in the Manse at Lochrutton.

October 8, 1822

Birth in Dublin of Richard Dalton Williams.

October 8, 1872

John Cowper Powys, Welsh Novelist, Born.

October 8, 1949

Edith Oenone Somerville, Irish Novelist, Dies in Castletownshend, Co. Cork.