Henry McMahon

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McMahon-Hussein Correspondence, the McMahon Line, Declaration to the Seven

Sir Vincent Arthur Henry McMahon

Bolshevik Russian government in November 1917, McMahon resigned.[4] He also features prominently in Seven Pillars of Wisdom, T.E. Lawrence's account of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I
.

Early life

McMahon was the son of

Captain Alexander McMahon (born 1791, Kilrea, County Londonderry, Ireland), had been an officer with the East India Company
.

He was educated in England at Haileybury College, the recently-founded successor of the East India Company College. When he joined the school, his father had an address in Exeter. He then proceeded to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[6]

Family background

The Oriel McMahons are the Gaelic clan of Mac Mathghamhna who had come originally from the medieval Irish kingdom of Oriel in South Ulster, where they reigned from around 1250 until about 1600.

Henry McMahon's own family had settled in the

Presbyterian congregation between 1789 and 1794: a prominent Irish Republican, Arthur McMahon was a member of the National Directory of the Society of United Irishmen and one of their colonels in Ulster during the Irish Rebellion of 1798.[7] He apparently fought at the battles of Saintfield and Ballynahinch. Following the rebels' overall defeat, he was able to flee to France, where he served with Napoleon’s Irish Legion.[citation needed] It has been reported that he was captured by the British during the Walcheren Campaign of 1809 and sent to England, but was later able to return to France where, in June 1815, he eventually died fighting at either Ligny or Waterloo.[8]

Career

British India

McMahon was commissioned as a

Punjab Frontier Force.[10]

In 1887, McMahon joined the Punjab Commission (civil service). He transferred to the

British Baluchistan and Political Resident for the Baluchistan Agency).[10] During these years he was promoted to captain on 10 March 1894, and major on 10 July 1901.[9] He received the temporary rank of colonel while employed on special duty on the Sistan frontier in 1903.[11]

McMahon spoke Persian, Afghani, and Hindustani, and his aptitude for languages led him also to learn Arabic.[citation needed]

In 1911, the Viceroy Lord Hardinge appointed McMahon as the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. He held this position till 1915. During 1913–1914, McMahon was responsible for holding the tripartite conference to negotiate the Simla Convention between Tibet, China and Britain, and acting as Britain's plenipoteniary. Though the conference failed to produce a signed convention between all three parties, Tibet and Britain did agree the draft convention, which governed their mutual relations till the end of British rule in India. Tibet and Britain also agreed their mutual border in the northeast India, which bears the name McMahon Line.[10][12]

Middle East

In 1915, McMahon was sent to replace Sir

Knight of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (KStJ). [citation needed
]

Although a temporary appointment, it became a permanent post, for an experienced political administrator. With the approval of Kitchener and Foreign Secretary

Great Arab Revolt against the Ottomans. Their correspondence is known to historians from the McMahon–Hussein Correspondence.[14]

Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) in 1916 upon his retirement from the British Indian Army.[citation needed
]

By May 1916, Turkish troops had arrived in Mecca, and McMahon received a telegram from

Sykes-Picot Agreement
, irritated McMahon.

On 23 November 1917, following the

The Manchester Guardian then printed the texts on 26 November 1917.[16]
This caused great embarrassment to the Allies and growing distrust between them and the Arabs, and McMahon resigned his post in protest.

Honours in retirement

In 1920, McMahon was awarded the

Knight of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem (KStJ).[citation needed
]

McMahon was one of the founders of the

Masonic Lodge in 1923,[17]
at which time he was also a member of the governing body of Imperial College.

Personal life

On 19 October 1886, in Bombay, McMahon married Mary E. Bland, a daughter of F. C. Bland of Derriquin Castle, County Kerry.[6] Their daughter Jessica was born in 1887. In 1909, at the church of St George's, Hanover Square, London, she married Henry A. Hetherington, of Berechurch Hall, Colchester.[18]

McMahon and his wife retired to England. McMahon died on 29 December 1949 at the Cadogan Hotel in

Golders Green Cemetery
.

Arms

Coat of arms of Henry McMahon
Notes
Granted 10 April 1924 by
Ulster King of Arms.[21]
Crest
On a wreath of the colours a bear rampant Sable holding an antique crown Or.
Escutcheon
Per pale Or and Gules an ostrich counterchanged holding in the beak a horseshoe Proper on a canton of the second a bear rampant Sable.
Motto
Deum Timens Solum

Taxa named in his honour

References

  1. JSTOR 41364037
    .
  2. ^ Rulers.org: Egypt, Countries E, High commissioners.
  3. ^ Rulers.org: Provinces of British India, Baluchistan, Chief commissioners.
  4. ^ See CAB 24/271, Cabinet Paper 203(37)
  5. ^ Obituary of Lieut. General Charles Alexander McMahon, journals.Cambridge.org. Accessed April 2011.
  6. ^ a b "McMahon, Arthur Henry, b. Nov. 28, 1862, son of Lieut.-Col. McMahon, 6, Regent's Park, Heavilree, Exeter" in Lionel Sumner Milford, Haileybury Register, 1862–1891 (Haileybury College, 1891), p. 149
  7. ^ Samuel McSkimin, The Annals of Ulster from 1790 to 1798 (1906), p. 87; accessed April 2011 at https://archive.org/stream/annalsulsterfro00mccrgoog/annalsulsterfro00mccrgoog_djvu.txt
  8. ^ J. W. Kernohan, The Parishes of Kilrea and Tamlaght O'Crilly (1912), p. 37, torrents.org.UK. Accessed April 2011.
  9. ^ a b Hart′s Army list, 1903
  10. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34794. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  11. ^ "No. 27516". The London Gazette. 16 January 1903. p. 309.
  12. ISBN 978-0333157374
    – via archive.org
  13. ^ J. Schneers, "The Balfour Declaration", p. 56
  14. ^ Howard, Adam M. (2017). Sewing the Fabric of Statehood: Garment Unions, American Labor and the Establishment of the State of Israel. University of Illinois Press. p. 10.
  15. ^ J. Schneers, pp. 54–60
  16. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2009. Retrieved 8 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) p. 9.
  17. ^ "Imperial College Lodge No. 4536 - List of Founders". www.iclodge.org.
  18. ^ Marriages solemnized at St George's, Hanover Square, No. 178, June 29, 1909 ancestry.co.uk, accessed 3 September 2022 (subscription required)
  19. ^ Sir Arthur Henry McMahon in UK and Ireland Find a Grave Index, 1300s–Current, ancestry.co.uk, accessed 3 September 2022 (subscription required)
  20. ^ "McMahon sir Arthur Henry" in Wills and Administrations 1950 (England and Wales) (1951), p. 787
  21. ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Volume M". National Library of Ireland. p. 117. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  22. ^
    ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5
    . ("McMahon", p. 173).
  23. ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order CYPRINIFORMES: Family CYPRINIDAE: Subfamily LABEONINAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 16 March 2022.

Bibliography

Books

Articles

  • Friedman, Isaiah (1970). The McMahon-Hussein Correspondence and the Question of Palestine. Vol. 5. Journal of Contemporary History.

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