About Richard Hennessy
Lived 1724 – 1800 (aged 75–76). Richard Hennessy was a military personnel, businessperson and merchant.
Richard Hennessy (; 1720 — 8 October 1800) was an Irish military officer and businessman, best known for founding the Hennessy brand of cognac in Charente. He was from County Cork, and became exiled in France due to his Jacobitism.
Biography Richard Hennessy was born in 1720 to James Hennessy and Catherine Barrett at Ballymacmoy House, Killavullen, a small village on the Blackwater river, in County Cork, then part of the Kingdom of Ireland. His family were Irish Catholics, and Hennessy grew up supporting Jacobitism, which led him to seek exile in 1740 at the age of nineteen.
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Who was Richard Hennessy?
Irish Jacobite merchant
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Richard Hennessy was born in 1724 in Killavullen.
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Richard Hennessy died on 8 October 1800 in Cognac.
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Richard Hennessy was a military personnel, businessperson and merchant.
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