The Irish standard., 1917-09-08

Brief Sketches Of Some Of the More
Prominent Delegates to. the Historic
Conference.
Lord mcdonnell has been one of
the most successful administrators of
our Indian Empire, where he has ruled
over provinces with larger populations
than Ireland. He was called in by the
late Mr.. George Wyndham when that
brilliant Tory land descendent of
famous Irish rebeD was Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland to assist the "Devolu-
ton" scheme, which Mr.. Wyndham's
colleagues turned and rent.
Lord Dunraven has long been for
meeting Ireland's demand for self
government by some sort of agree
ment, and he made a strong appeal to
Mr.. William O'Brien to lend a hand
in the present Convention.
Lord Desart, whom most people re-
member as Director of Public Prosecu.
tions, is British member of the Hague
Court of Arbitration.
Lord Franard has military and dipio-
matte distinctions to his credit, and
was Assistant Postmaster-Genera
from 1906 to 1909.
Sir Horace Plunkett's great services
to Irish agriculture and the co-opera-
tive movement in Ireland are we'll
known. He, too, has accepted the
position that something must be done
to meet the national claims.
DR.. Mahaffy and Sir B. Windle rep
resent University culture. The former
is, the famous Provost of Trinity and
the latter the Vice Chancellor of the
National University. Sir B. Windle is
wellknown in Birmingham, where he
was Professor of Anatomy at Kings
College.
Sir G. McCullagh is an ex-Lord
Mayor of Belfast.
Sir William Goulding is the chairman
of the Great Southern and Western
Railway of Ireland.
Sir w. Whitla is an ex-president of
the British Medical Association.
Mr.. George Russell is an ally of Sir
H. Plunkett in the cooperative move
ment. He is also an agricultural ex-
pert, an artist and poet.
Mr.. Lysaght is another poet, CO.
operator and agriculturalist.
Mr.. Dempsey is leading Belfast
merchant and a member of the Senate
Of the University.
Mr.. w. M. Murphy owns the DAILY
Independent" of Dublin, is chairman
of the Tramway Company there, and
is in business railway contractor
a very able and outspoken man, with
definite views about finance, and
Home Ruler to whom the Home Rule
Act is anathema. ....
Ulster StaIwarts.
The representatives of the Irish
Party need no introduction, with the
exception of Mr.. HARRISON, who is not
an M. P. He is solicitor of Cooks
town, County Tyrone, a leading Ulster
Nationalist, and strong opponent of
partition" in any form.
The Ulster Unionists are all stall
warts. Lord Londonderry, as the
great-great-grandson of Viscount Cas-
tlereagh, who passed the Union, has
a hereditary interest in that measure.
Sir G. Clerk is head of the other great
shipbuilding firm of Belfast, Messrs.
Workman and Clark. Mr.. H. T. Barrie,
the only M. P. of the group, is the
secretary of the Ulster Unionist Par
liamentary Party. Colonel Wallace
is Grand Master of the Belfast Orange
Lodge, and Mr.. knight is Clones
solicitor who stands for the Unionist
organization in Ulster.
Lord Middleton is the chairman of
the Irish Unionist Alliance, and as his
seat is in County Cork he is naturally
one of the Southern Unionist group.
Sir M. Dockrell is leading Dublin
solicitor, and Mr.. Powell a Dublin
K. c.
Among the representatives of the
Churches it should perhaps be men,
toned that Dr. Kelly, the Bishop of
Ross, was member of the Cabinet
Committee on Irish Finance in 1911,
and has the reputation of being one of
the ablest men in ireland. Both the
Primate of the Church of Ireland and
IAC D1oAOp VI -HuU11u ldNc Sl1OWu COus
ciliatory views towards their Catholic
fellow-countrymen.
AS to the Lord Mayors, Mayors,
and representatives of urban councils,
nothing calls for special note, but it
is worth metioning that among the
chairmen of county councils-the most
numerous groups in the Convention
the names are representative of the
districts of Ireland to which they be-
long to a remarkable degree. Thus,
it is eminently fitting that a Kavanagh
should be the representative of Car
low, an O'Reilly of Cavan, Barry of
Cork, Dunleary of Donegal, a Butler
of Kilkenny, an O'Dowd of Sligo, a
Power of Waterford, and a Bolger of
Wexford, to all of which counties
those names have belonged territorial
ly from time immemOrial. Mr.. Nc.