Antony Patrick MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell,, known as Sir Antony MacDonnell between 1893 and 1908, was an Irish civil servant, much involved in the Indian land reform and famine relief in India.
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Augustine Birrell KC was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property and f
Antony MacDonnell, 1st Baron MacDonnell
…James Bryce replaced Long as Chief Secretary for Ireland in the new Liberal administration. Bryce relied heavily on MacDonnell, as did his successor, Augustine Birrell, who was appointed in 1907, and together they drafted a new devolution scheme, the Irish Council Bill, which sought to initiate a committee of Irish…
Augustine Birrell
Augustine Birrell c1895
Plaque in Greystones, Ireland commemorating the events of 25 October 1910, when Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington and Hilda Webb challenged Birrell on the suffrage issue.
Birrell caricatured by Spy for Vanity Fair, 1906