page_title: Richard Feetham
section_title: Irish Boundary Commission
hierarchical_section_title: Richard Feetham / Service as commissioner / Irish Boundary Commission
caption_attribution_description: English: Group taken after the arrival of the members of the Boundary Commission, with Secretaries, The Mall, Armagh. - Left to right - Mr. Francis Bernard Bourdillon, C.B.E., M.A. (Secretary to Commission); Mr. J. R. Fisher (Northern Ireland), Mr. Justice Feetham (Chairman), Dr. Eoin MacNeill (Free State representative), and Mr. C. Beerstacher (private secretary to Mr. Justice Feetham). - Photo, Hogan.
context_page_description: Richard Feetham CMG was a lawyer, politician and judge in South Africa. He was also the chairman of a number of high-profile international and domestic commissions.
context_section_description: He was Chairman of the Irish Boundary Commission (1924-1925) which decided on the precise delineation of the border between the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland following partition in 1921. Lionel Curtis, Lloyd George's main Irish adviser wrote on the appointment of Feetham:
  "Incomparably the best man I know for his purpose is one Richard Feetham KC, legal adviser to the Governor General of South Africa.  He is an English trained Barrister and a member of the South African assembly who has been through all our constitutional work since Milner's time.  On my advice Montague sent him out to India as chairman of a committee to prepare a scheme for the decentralization of powers of the central government.  In four months he solved a problem over which the Government of India had been struggling with for over 20 years."
  Despite these glowing references the Boundary Commission's report was completely unacceptable to both Northern Irish and Free State governments, and to Feetham's concern was buried, with neither party even prepared to admit having read it.
caption: Feetham (centre) with other members of the Irish Boundary Commission
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