Augustine Birrell





Augustine Birrell

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born
January 19, 1850 in Wavertree, nr Liverpool, The United Kingdom

died
November 20, 1933

gender
male


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The Right Honourable Augustine Birrell was an English politician, barrister, academic and author. He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, resigning in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.

Birrell was the son of a Baptist minister. He was educated at Amersham Hall school and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1879. He started work in a solicitor's office in Liverpool but was called to the Bar in 1875, becoming a QC in 1893.

In 1888 he married Eleanor Tennyson, daughter of the poet Frederick Locker-Lampson and widow of Lionel Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. They had two sons, one of whom, Frankie (1889–1935) was later a journalist and critic and associated with the Bloomsb...more


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Life Of Charlotte Brontë
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Obiter Dicta
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Essays of Today and Yesterday
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Emerson: A Lecture (1903)
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Selected Essays, 1884-1907
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More Obiter Dicta
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Essays about Men, Women, an...
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More books by Augustine Birrell…
“An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.”
Augustine Birrell

“Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
Augustine Birrell

“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.”
Augustine Birrell