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About Augustine Birrell
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 for extending university education for Catholics. He was criticised for failing to take action against Irish rebels before the Easter Rising, leading to his subsequent resignation. A barrister by training, he was also an author noted for humorous essays.
Everything about Augustine Birrell →- Occupation
- politician, barrister, writer, literary critic
- Position held
- Secretary of State for Education, Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the 30th Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- January 19, 1850, 1850
- Died
- November 20, 1933, 1933