Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun
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| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 5 November 1925 – 1 November 1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Walter Guinness | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Arthur Samuel | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 30 April 1861 Torquay | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 October 1934 (aged 73) Cushendun, County Antrim, Northern Ireland | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Conservative | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun,
PC (30 April 1861 – 12 October 1934), was a British Conservative
politician and writer.
Background and education
McNeill was born in
JP and Sheriff of County Antrim, and his wife Mary (née Miller). He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1886. McNeill was called to the bar in 1888 and started work as editor of The St James's Gazette (1900–04), as well as assistant editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1906–10).[2]
Political career
Having unsuccessfully contested the seats of
Labour Government of 1924
, until 1925.
After serving as
Kellogg-Briand Pact
in August that year. He retired from office in 1929.
Cushendun and Glenmona House
From 1910, McNeill resided, when not in London, at Glenmona House in Cushendun, the coastal village in the Glens of Antrim in County Antrim from which he later took his title. He was burnt out of the house in 1922, having a replacement built that was designed by Clough Williams-Ellis.[4] The village also contains buildings designed by Williams-Ellis, built in memory of Lord Cushendun's Cornish wife, Maud, who died in 1925.
Family
In 1884, the future Lord Cushendun married Elizabeth Maud Bolitho (sister of
Christian Scientist.[5] They had three daughters: Esther Rose, Loveday Violet, and Mary Morvenna Bolitho (who married Major Philip Le Grand Gribble, military correspondent and memoirist). After Elizabeth's death in 1925 he married Catherine Sydney Louisa Margesson in 1930. She survived him, dying in 1939.[6]
Lord Cushendun died in Cushendun in October 1934, aged 73, when the barony became extinct.
References
- ^ Bridget Hourican, 'McNeill, Ronald John'. Dictionary of Irish Biography, October 2009, retrieved 21 September 2023
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Table of contributors. Encyclopædia Britannica. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. xii.
- ^ "No. 33327". The London Gazette. 8 November 1927. p. 7113.
- National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- ^ Gribble, Phillip (1964). Off the Cuff. London: Phoenix House. p. 35.
- ISBN 0-904387-82-8.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Ronald McNeill
- Portraits of Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Works by Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun at Internet Archive
- . . Dublin: Alexander Thom and Son Ltd. 1923. p. – via Wikisource.
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