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 of Department of Agriculture, Technical Education, and Veterinary College. Assisted by the I.C.T.S.D.A., he had two departmental Committees chosen to enquire into and report upon the humane transit of Live Stock by land and sea, which improved conditions in 1915. With the active co-operation of the I.C.T.S.D.A., leading citizens and other kindred associations, he presided over an influential Committee that successfully revived the Fat-stock, Grain, Roots and Dairy Show at the R.D.S., Ballsbridge premises. In the House, assisted passing Town Tenants (Ireland) Bill. Defeated attempt of private syndicate to control electric lighting in Dublin; successfully opposed transfer of Stanley Cattle-market Liverpool to Bootle; was one of the strenuous promoters in starting House of Commons Commercial Committee; as a member of Executive represented it at Hungarian International Congress, Buda Pesth, 1896; likewise went as a delegate to International Congress of Rome, 1917. Served with Select Committee on Transport and Irish Sub-Committee on Ports and Canals of Ireland, reported Nov., 1918. Pubns.: Poor Law Reform; Land Lessons; Irish Parliaments; Home Rule Governments in Ireland; Irish Railways compared with State-owned and managed lines; Real Railway Reform: Railway Monopoly; Trade and Transit Travel Together; Three Booklets on Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, and Veterinary College for Ireland; Treasury Tactics; Seditious Ireland and Imperial Expenditure; Town Tenants Texts Finance; Star Pamphlets (2); Gambling in Futures and Options; Humane Housing and Homely Allotments; Land and Beet Sugar Cultivation; Dublin Port Historical Sketch; Leaflets, Dublin Electric Lighting; Opposition to Finance Bill. Two plays: Charley go it; Puzzled Playwright.

FIELDEN, Victor George Leopold, M.D. (Q.U.B.), M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. (R.U.I.); Senior Anæsthetist, Royal Victoria Hospital; Belfast Ophthalmic Hospital, and Ulster Volunteer Force Hospital; Consulting Anæsthetist, Ulster Hospital for Women and Children; Licentiate of Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland; Demonstrator of Materia Medica and Pharmacy; Medical Officer Hampton House Industrial School. Queen's University, Belfast; b. Plymouth, 1867; son of late Immer Fielden, R.N., late Board of Trade Surveyor: m. Caroline Grant, dau. of late Charles Henderson Ward, Solicitor, Belfast, and has issue one son, five daus. Res.: 84 Dublin Road, Belfast.

FIGGIS, Darrell; b. in Rathmines, Co. Dublin, 1882; engaged as tea buyer and broker in London and Calcutta, 1898-1910; literary adviser to F. M. Dent & Sons, 1911-1913; dramatic critic. The Academy, London, and Free-Lance Journalist, 1910-1914; Howth gun-running, May, June and July, 1914; lived in Achill, 1914 to 1916; arrested May, 1916, and liberated December, 1916; again arrested February, 1917, escaped May, 1917; arrested May, 1918, liberated April, 1919; Hon. Sec. Sinn Fein, October, 1917 to May, 1919; Editor The Republic June, 1919, to Sept., 1919, when paper was suppressed. Secretary Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland, September, 1919, to January, 1922: Acting Chairman of Committee appointed to draft the Constitution of the Irish Free State, January, 1922; returned as T.D., Co. Dublin, June 1922. Pubns.: A Vision of life (poems) 1909; The Crucibles of Time (poems), 1911; Shakespeare: A Study 1911; Broken Axes (a novel), 1911; Studies and Appreciations, 1912; Queen Tara (a play, produced at the Queen's Theatre, Dublin), 1913; Jacob Elthorne (a novel), 1914; The Mount of Transfiguration (poems), 1915; "Æ": A Story of a Man and a Nation. 1916; William Castleton, 1916; A Chronicle of Jails, 1917; The Gaelic State, in the Past and Future, 1917; The Freedom of the Seas, 1917; Children of Earth (a novel), 1917; The Historic Case, for Irish Independence, 1918; Byeways of Study, 1918; A Second Chronicle of Jails, 1919; The Economic Case for Irish Independence, 1920; The House of Success (a novel), 1921; Planning for the Future: an Address before the Architectural Association of Ireland, 1922: The Irish Constitution Explained, 1922. Recns.: golf and chess. Res.: 24 Kildare Street, Dublin; Mullach na gCreagan, Keel, Achill, Co. Mayo.

FINCH, Major William Robert Edward Heneage, O.B.E. (1919); only son of the late Fredk. Hugh Finch, of Kilcolman, Co. Tipperary; b. 1868; m. 1898, Cecil Harriet Beatrice Bermingham, dau. of the late Wm. Clifford Bermingham Otway-Ruthven, D.L. and J.P., Co. Leitrim, and of the late Mrs. Otway-Ruthven, of Castle Otway, Co. Tipperary, and granddau. of the late Vice-Adml. Robt. Jocelyn Otway, D.L., J.P.; Major 3rd Batt. Manchester Regt.; served in S. Africa, 1900-1, and Great War, 1914-9 (despatches three times), J.P. Co. Tipperary. Res.: Crannagh, Ballycommon, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary.

FINEGAN, Most Rev. Patrick, Bishop of Kilmore; b. Curlurgan, Cavan, 16th Aug., 1858. Educ.: St. Patrick's College Cavan. Ordained 18th Dec, 1881. Professor of Theology, St. Patrick's College Cavan, Sept., 1896; P.P., V.F., Templeport. July, 1902. Vicar-Capitular, Kilraor on vacancy of See, 1906: V.G., 1907: V.C. again, 1910: Appointed Bishop. June, 1910: Consecrated in Cathedral, Cavan Sept. 11th, 1910. Res.: Cullies Hous Cavan.