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| Affiliation | Ulster Unionist |
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| Name | Edward Carson |
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, England , United Kingdom |
| Email | None |
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February 09, 1854
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| Died | October 22, 1935
(81 years)
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| Contributor | Some say... |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Jun 27, 2023 02:39am |
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| Info | Educated Portarlington School and Trinity College Dublin(TCD). Called to the bar in 1877, soon built up a large practice, and became Solicitor-General for Ireland 1892. MP University of Dublin 1892–1918. He was called to the English bar in 1893 and made a devastating cross-examination of Oscar Wilde in Wilde's libel action against the Marquis of Queensberry.
He joined the Unionist government in 1900 as Solicitor-General and received a knighthood. In Parliament he vigorously opposed any move to weaken the links between England and Ireland, and became leader of the Irish Unionists in 1910. When Liberals under Asquith introduced the Home Rule Bill (1912), Carson took a leading part in the formation of the Ulster Volunteers, who drilled openly to show that they were prepared to resort to force of arms rather than come under an Irish parliament in Dublin. A "Solemn Covenant of Resistance" to home rule was signed by hundreds of thousands of Northern unionists. Carson told them, "Don't be afraid of illegalities," and in April 1914 the Ulster Volunteers landed guns at Larne, County Antrim, in defiance of the British government but with the open approval of the Conservative opposition.
The Home Rule Bill became law in August 1914 but its operation was immediately suspended until after the war. The Ulster Unionists, led by Carson and Craig, were assured by Asquith that "the coercion of Ulster is unthinkable." Carson was appointed Attorney-General in 1915 but resigned in 1916 in dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war. After the Easter Rising he was assured by Lloyd George that the six north-eastern counties would be permanently excluded from the Home Rule Act (1914), and he accepted office as First Lord of the Admiralty. When the war ended he became MP for the Duncairn division of Belfast. The Government of Ireland Act (1920), setting up a parliament for Northern Ireland, was supported by the Ulster Unionists on Carson's advice as their only alternative, since there was no hope of repealing the Home Rule Act. In 1921 he was appointed Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and took a life peerage as Baron Carson of Duncairn. He died in Kent on 22 October 1935 and after a state funeral in Belfast was buried in St Anne's Cathedral.
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