• Thumbnail for Augustine Birrell
    Augustine Birrell KC (19 January 1850 – 20 November 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916...
    31 KB (3,346 words) - 05:32, 14 June 2024
  • Alec Birrell (1885–1948), Australian rules footballer Augustine Birrell (1850–1933), English politician, barrister, academic and author Billy Birrell (1897–1968)...
    1 KB (204 words) - 23:06, 24 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Easter Rising
    Nathan telegraphed the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, in London seeking his approval. By the time Birrell cabled his reply authorising the action...
    145 KB (16,430 words) - 20:19, 15 September 2024
  • Frederick Locker Birrell (17 February 1889 – 2 January 1935) was an English writer and bookseller. Birrell was the son of Augustine Birrell and Eleanor Tennyson...
    2 KB (183 words) - 13:47, 6 January 2023
  • Thumbnail for Matthew Nathan
    from 1914 to 1916, and was responsible, with the Chief Secretary, Augustine Birrell, for the administration of Ireland in the years immediately preceding...
    15 KB (1,438 words) - 11:20, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frederick Locker-Lampson
    Tennyson, and after his death married the writer and Liberal politician Augustine Birrell. Chronic ill-health debarred Locker from any active part in life,...
    6 KB (817 words) - 15:35, 11 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reginald McKenna
    appointed Ambassador to the US, Augustine Birrell replaced him as Chief Secretary for Ireland, and McKenna succeeded Birrell as President of the Board of...
    35 KB (3,936 words) - 05:47, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Diary of a Nobody
    who added his tribute was Augustine Birrell, who in 1910 occupied the cabinet post of Chief Secretary for Ireland. Birrell wrote that he ranked Charles...
    48 KB (6,043 words) - 15:32, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Liberal government, 1905–1915
    Agriculture Augustine Birrell – President of the Board of Education Sydney Buxton – Postmaster-General January 1907 – Augustine Birrell succeeds Bryce...
    53 KB (2,220 words) - 09:17, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for John Wesley
    (1872). Vol. 1. Kansas City, Mo: Beacon Hill's. Wesley, John (1915). Augustine Birrell (ed.). Letters of John Wesley. New York: Hodder and Stoughton. Wesley...
    119 KB (13,537 words) - 11:45, 10 September 2024