Sir Thomas Russell, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Russell, Bt Tyrone South | |
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| In office July 1886 – January 1910 | |
| Preceded by | William O'Brien |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Horner |
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| Born | 28 February 1841 (pre-1885) |
Sir Thomas Wallace Russell, 1st Baronet MP PC (Ire) (28 February 1841 – 2 May 1920), was an Irish politician and agrarian agitator. Born at Cupar, Fife, Scotland, he moved to County Tyrone at the age of eighteen. He was secretary and parliamentary agent of the Irish temperance movement and became well known as an anti-alcohol campaigner[1] and proprietor of a Temperance Hotel in Dublin.[2]
Career
He unsuccessfully contested
However, Russell's views on Home Rule underwent a change around the turn of the century and he gradually became a critic of Unionist policies in Ireland. From 1900 put himself at the head of the Farmers and Labourers Union, an
Russell continued to represent Tyrone South in Parliament. In 1906, supported by Lindsay Crawford and his Independent Orange Order while at the same acknowledging his debt to Catholic tenant farmers,[5] he was re-elected as an "Independent Unionist", one of several candidates referred to as "Russellite Unionist".
Russell was vice-president of the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction[1] (DATI), in which capacity he displaced Horace Plunkett as head of the Department in 1907.[2] He disapproved of Plunkett's cooperative Irish Agricultural Organisation Society involving itself in the affairs of farmers, and ended DATI's help for the society.
He rejoined the Liberal Party and stood as a Liberal candidate at the general election in January 1910, when he lost his seat to the Unionist Andrew Horner.[6] Russell does not appear to have contested the December 1910 general election, but in 1911 he won a by-election in Tyrone North, a seat he held until the constituency was abolished in 1918.[6]
Russell was sworn of the
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Notes
- ^ a b c d Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. pp. 308–309.
- ^ ISBN 0-7171-2744-3
- ISBN 0-7538-1767-5
- ISBN 0-7171-2744-3
- ISBN 9781906578008.
- ^ a b Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978), pp. 376–378
- ^ "No. 30224". The London Gazette. 10 August 1917. p. 8130.
- ^ "Grants and Confirmations of Arms Vol. L". National Library of Ireland. p. 144. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
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