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Under-Secretaries For Ireland
The Under-Secretary for Ireland (Permanent Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) was the permanent head (or most senior civil servant) of the British administration in Ireland prior to the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. The Under-Secretary's residence was at Ashtown Lodge in Phoenix Park, also known as the Under Secretary's Lodge. Among the best-known holders of the office was Thomas Henry Burke, who was assassinated along with the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, in the so-called Phoenix Park Killings on Saturday, 6 May 1882. In April 1887 Colonel Edward Robert King-Harman was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, but he died on 10 June 1888 and no further appointments were made. Under-Secretaries for Ireland ;Under-Secretary to the Chief Secretary: * Arthur Podmore by 1690 * Joshua Dawson 1699 * Eustace Budgell 1714 * Charles Maddockes 1718 * Thomas Tickell 1724 * 1740 John Potter * Thomas Waite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Lieutenant Of Ireland
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (), or more formally Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland, was the title of the chief governor of Ireland from the Williamite Wars of 1690 until the Partition of Ireland in 1922. This spanned the Kingdom of Ireland (1541–1800) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922). The office, under its various names, was often more generally known as the Viceroy, and his wife was known as the vicereine. The government of Ireland in practice was usually in the hands of the Lord Deputy up to the 17th century, and later of the Chief Secretary for Ireland. Role The Lord Lieutenant possessed a number of overlapping roles. He was * the representative of the King (the "viceroy"); * the head of the executive in Ireland; * (on occasion) a member of the English or British Cabinet; * the fount of mercy, justice and patronage; * (on occasion) commander-in-chief in Ireland. * Grand Master of the Order of St. Patrick Prior to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Francis Sheridan
Charles Francis Sheridan (June 1750 – 24 June 1806) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer, politician and writer. Biography Sheridan was born at 12 Dorset Street, Dublin, the elder son of the actor Thomas Sheridan and Frances Sheridan (née Chamberlaine). His younger brother was Richard Brinsley Sheridan and his sisters were Alicia Sheridan Le Fanu and Betsy Sheridan. He was educated at home by his father until 1754, when the family moved to London after a riot in his father's theatre in Dublin. In 1757, Sheridan and his family returned to Ireland briefly, before then moving to England permanently. From an early age, Sheridan was trained in public speaking by his father. In May 1777, he was appointed secretary to the British envoy in Sweden. He arrived in the country during the coup d'état which brought Gustavus III to power. He spent three years there and afterwards wrote ''A history of the late revolution in Sweden'' (1778), which was well received and later translated into French. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Arthur Wynne
John Arthur Wynne PC (20 April 1801 – 19 June 1865) was an Irish landowner and politician. Biography He was the eldest surviving son of Owen Wynne (1755–1841) of Hazelwood House, Sligo, Ireland and educated at Winchester School (1816-1819) and Christ Church, Oxford (1820). He succeeded his father in 1841, inheriting the family seat of Hazelwood House, Sligo, and was appointed High Sheriff of Sligo for 1840–41. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Sligo in 1830 and again in 1856, resigning in 1860 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead. He was made an Irish Privy Counsellor The Privy Council, formally His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its members, known as privy counsellors, are mainly senior politicians who are current or former ... in 1852. He died on a visit to Tuam in 1865. He had married Lady Anne Wandesford Butler, the daughter of James But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Nicholas Redington
Sir Thomas Nicholas Redington KCB (2 October 1815 – 11 October 1862) was an Irish administrator, politician and civil servant. Redington, the only son of Christopher Talbot Redington (1780–1825), a captain in the army, by Frances, only daughter of Henry Dowell of Cadiz, was born at Kilcornan, Clarenbridge, County Galway. He was educated at Oscott College and at Christ's College, Cambridge, but as a Roman Catholic was not eligible to graduate with a degree. Devoting himself to politics, he succeeded William Sharman Crawford as the Member of Parliament for Dundalk, serving in the Whig interest from 1837 to 1846. On 11 July 1846, he was appointed under-secretary of state for Ireland, in 1847 a commissioner of national education, and ex officio an Irish poor-law commissioner. As a member of Sir John Burgoyne's relief commission in 1847 he rendered much active service during the famine, and in consequence of his services he was on 28 Aug. 1849 nominated a knight-commander o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Pennefather (civil Servant)
Sir Alfred Richard Pennefather (16 March 1845 – 15 August 1918) was a British civil servant and from 1883 to 1909 the third holder of the post of Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, a period marked by tensions with Commissioner Charles Warren and the construction of a new headquarters for the Metropolitan Police. Born in Dublin and privately educated, he was a son of John, a barrister of King's Inn and a Queen's Counsel, making Alfred Richard's paternal grandfather Richard Pennefather. Alfred Richard become a clerk at the Home Office in 1868, rising to clerk in charge of accounts before his 1883 appointment. He also later became a visiting justice of the peace to Chelmsford Prison, a member of the House of Laymen of the Province of Canterbury and a member of the Church of England's Central Board of Finance.Norman Fairfax, ''From Quills to Computers - The History of the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff 1829-1979'' (unpublished, 1979), pages 38-46 and 99 On 9 May 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Lucas (died 1871)
Edward Lucas (27 September 1787 – 12 November 1871) was an Irish landowner and politician in County Monaghan County Monaghan ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster and is part of Border Region, Border strategic planning area of the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town .... Biography He was the only child of Charles Lucas, High Sheriff of Monaghan in 1795; Edward Lucas MP was his grandfather. In 1796 he succeeded his father in the family estate of Castle Shane. He was High Sheriff for Monaghan in 1818, and represented the county in Parliament from 1834 to 1841. From 1841 to 1846, he served as Under-Secretary for Ireland, and in 1845 he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council. In 1812 Lucas married Anne, daughter of William Ruxton of Ardee. They had five sons (including Gould Arthur Lucas) and three daughters. On his death he was succeeded at Castle Shane by his eldest son Edward Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Hilton Macdonald
Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norman conquest of southern Italy in the 11th and 12th centuries ** Normanist theory (also known as Normanism) and anti-Normanism, historical disagreement regarding the origin of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and their historic predecessor, Kievan Rus' ** Norman dynasty, a series of monarchs in England and Normandy ** Norman architecture, romanesque architecture in England and elsewhere ** Norman language, spoken in Normandy ** People or things connected with the French region of Normandy Arts and entertainment * ''Norman'' (2010 film), a 2010 drama film * ''Norman'' (2016 film), a 2016 drama film * ''Norman'' (TV series), a 1970 British sitcom starring Norman Wisdom * ''The Normans'' (TV series), a documentary * "Norman" (song), a 1962 song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Drummond
Captain Thomas Drummond (10 October 1797 – 15 April 1840), from Edinburgh was a Scottish British Army officer, civil engineer and senior public official. He used the Drummond light which was employed in the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland. He is sometimes mistakenly given credit for the invention of limelight, at the expense of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. It was Drummond, however, who realised its value in surveying. Early life Drummond was the second of three sons. Despite his father dying when he was young, he credited his mother with getting him through his education at Edinburgh High School and then on to be a Royal Engineer cadet at Woolwich Academy in 1813. He showed an early gift for mathematics. After Woolwich he was stationed in Edinburgh and was involved with public works. He was bored with this and had enrolled at Lincoln's Inn when he was recruited to use his trigonometry to help conduct a survey in the Highlands. This new work was done in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gosset (politician)
Major-General Sir William Gosset (18 January 1782 – 27 March 1848) was a British Army officer who served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1835 to 1847. Early life and family Gosset was born in Jersey and was of French Huguenot descent. He was the son of Matthieu Gosset of Bagot and his second wife, Marguerite Durell. He had three half-brothers by his father's first marriage, including Matthew Gosset, Viscount of Jersey. His great-uncle was the sculptor Isaac Gosset and his uncle, also named Isaac, was a noted bibliophile. Career Gosset was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1798. During the Napoleonic Wars, he was sent to Holland in the Walcheren Campaign in 1809. Gosset was secretary to William à Court's mission to the Barbary States in 1813. During the Bombardment of Algiers in August 1816, he served as major commandant of the engineers under Admiral Viscount Exmouth and destroyed an enemy frigate. In honour of his assistance, he was appointe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gregory (civil Servant)
William Gregory PC (I) (February 1762 – 13 April 1840) was an Irish politician and civil servant. He was the most senior permanent official in the Dublin Castle administration between 1812 and 1830, during which time he opposed Catholic emancipation and the liberal agendas of several Lords Lieutenant of Ireland. Biography Gregory was the youngest of three sons of Robert Gregory and Marie Auchmuty. Gregory was born in India, where his father worked for the East India Company, but he was educated at Harrow School in England. He then studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Master of Arts in 1787. Gregory entered the Inner Temple in 1788 and was called to the English bar in 1788, although he does not appear to have practised law. After a period managing his father's estates at Coole Park in County Galway, in 1795 Gregory entered public service as surveyor of Skerries in the Irish administration of Lord Fitzwilliam. In 1799 he was appointed High Sheriff of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Charles Saxton, 2nd Baronet
Sir Charles Saxton, 2nd Baronet (2 October 1773 – 24 January 1838) was a British barrister, senior civil servant in the Dublin Castle administration in Ireland, and Tory politician. Biography Saxton was the eldest surviving son of Sir Charles Saxton, 1st Baronet and Mary Bush. He was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford, before entering Lincoln's Inn in 1791. He was called to the English bar in 1800, after which he worked as a barrister practising on the Chester circuit and recorder of his native Abingdon-on-Thames. Between 1803 and 1808 he served as a volunteer in the London and Westminster Light Horse. Through his friendship with Charles Williams-Wynn, Saxton was able to secure a role in the Irish civil service commencing in August 1806. He returned briefly to England two months later to contest the Malmesbury constituency on the interest of the Earl of Radnor, in which he was unsuccessful. Saxton retained his public office under the administration of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Traill (under-secretary)
James Traill may refer to: * James Traill (bishop), Anglican bishop * James Hamilton Traill, Australian flying ace * James Traill (cricketer), English cricketer and barrister * James Traill (botanist) (died 1853) See also * James Trail, British lawyer and politician * James W. H. Trail, Scottish botanist {{hndis, Traill, James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
