Birrell, Augustine

Education

LL.D. 29.3.1895 in absentia.

Birth/childhood

Born 19.1.1850 youngest son of Rev. Charles Birrell, non-conformist minister near Liverpool and Harriet Jane Gray. [Minister]

Career

Educated Cambridge University.

Member of Parliament [M.P.] Fife West (L) 1889 -1900. North Bristol 1906 - 1918. [Politician]

Essayist.

The Collected Essays & Addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 (London: Dent, 1922)

Obiter dicta...William Shakespeare, Thomas Carlyle, Robert Browning, Charles Lamb (New York: Scribner, 1904)

Essays about Men, Women, and Books (New York: Scribner, 1894)

etc.

Death

Died 20.11.1933.

Sources

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