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What position did Joseph Nolan take from Oct 1900 to Nov 1910?
Joseph Nolan Joseph Nolan ( 1846 – 14 September 1928 ) was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament ( MP ) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland . As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party , he represented North Louth from 1885 to 1892 , and South Louth from 1900 to 1918 . The Irish Times ( 15 September 1928 ) said he was One of the Fenians whom Parnellism conquered . Nolan was born at Castleblayney , County Monaghan . He married Mary Flinn , who had been born in County Down , in 1884 . She was 12–14 years his junior . Together they had nine children , of whom two died young , leaving by 1911 three sons and four daughters . Nolan was originally a schoolteacher , in Ireland and then at a reformatory school in Liverpool . He later became manager of the Aquarium and Casino in New Brighton on the Wirral Peninsula near Liverpool , and this was his job at the time of his first election to Parliament for the new seat of North Louth in the Nationalist landslide of 1885 . In this election , as the official Irish National League candidate supported by Charles Stewart Parnell , he defeated Philip Callan , who had previously sat for Co . Louth as a Home Ruler but had fallen out with Parnell and now stood as an Independent Nationalist . Nolan was then returned unopposed in 1886 . When the Irish Parliamentary Party split over the leadership of Charles Stewart Parnell in 1890 , Nolan supported Parnell . At the following election in 1892 he stood in South Louth but was defeated by an Anti-Parnellite by more than 2 to 1 . At the general election of July 1895 he stood in the North Louth seat again , challenging the prominent Anti-Parnellite incumbent Timothy Michael Healy , but was again defeated , this time by 3 to 2 . In a by-election the following September , he came within 88 votes of winning Limerick City as a Parnellite . At the general election of October 1900 , following the reunification of the Irish Parliamentary Party , he stood in the South Louth seat as an Independent Nationalist against the official Nationalist candidate , and won with 57% of the vote . He was subsequently reconciled to the official Party and returned unopposed at South Louth until 1918 , when he retired . In a characteristically colourful obituary in the Daily Telegraph , T . P . OConnor said , like the Irish Times , that Nolan was one of the Fenians whom Parnellism conquered . He went on to write : ...and when Parnell was on the look-out for candidates to join his new and soon-to-be-powerful party his mind was directed to Nolan , who had a record of obscure but violent acts behind him...He was a very fine-looking fellow , 6 ft 2in or 3in high , very well proportioned , with a handsome and refined face...He could speak , but with such slowness as to make a speech from him almost an infliction...he was always in or about the House of Commons...Forced to make a living - for there was no salary for Members of Parliament in those days , and a very small allowance from the party funds - Nolan was always engaged in some enterprise which he was trying to push...At one time it was to purchase rum of Jamaica ; at another he had some scheme for exploring and exploiting a large piece of land in Labrador . Like all his colleagues , I heard Labrador described with his maddening slowness of speech , until in the end I had to protect myself by rarely seeing him . OConnor added that at the end of his life Nolan got into a state of almost complete destitution . In 1901 he was working as a dealers agent , own account and in 1911 as a wine shipper . It can be inferred from the Census records that he never lived in Ireland after about 1884 . His last recorded public appearance seems to have been at a service of thanksgiving for the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty held in Westminster Cathedral , London , on 8 December 1921 , which was also attended by his former Irish Parliamentary Party colleagues T . P . OConnor and Thomas Scanlan . Sources . - Census of England and Wales , 1901 and 1911 - Irish Times , 15 September 1928 - Rt Hon . T . P . OConnor M.P. , Obituary , Mr Joseph Nolan , Daily Telegraph , 15 September 1928 - Michael Stenton & Stephen Lees , Whos Who of British Members of Parliament , Vol.2 1886–1918 , Sussex , Harvester Press , 1978 - The Times ( London ) , 4 December 1885 , 5 July 1892 , 9 December 1921 - Brian M . Walker ( ed. ) , Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland , 1801-1922 , Dublin , Royal Irish Academy , 1978