List of members of the Senate of Southern Ireland

The Senate of Southern Ireland was the upper house of the Parliament of Southern Ireland, established de jure in 1921 under the terms of the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The Act stipulated that there be 64 senators, but only 40 were selected and the Senate met only briefly before being dissolved.

Composition

The Senate's composition was specified in the Second Schedule of the 1920 Act, and the mode and time of selection in the Fourth Schedule. These were similar to those suggested for the Senate in the report of the Irish Convention of 1917–18.^[1] The 64 members were as follows:

• 3 ex officio members:
  • The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, intended as the presiding officer of the Senate. The Lord Chancellor had previously been the chairman of the Irish House of Lords in the Parliament of Ireland prior to its abolition.^[2]
  • The Lord Mayor of Dublin and the Lord Mayor of Cork.
• 17 "Representatives of Commerce (including Banking), Labour, and the Scientific and Learned Professions" to be nominated by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a term of 10 years.
• 44 members elected by various interest groups from among their respective memberships, using the single transferable vote:
  • Elected for a term of 10 years:
    • 4 Archbishops or Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church holding Sees situated wholly or partly in Southern Ireland.
    • 2 Archbishops or Bishops of the Church of Ireland holding Sees situated wholly or partly in Southern Ireland.
    • 16 Peers (not necessarily members of the Peerage of Ireland) who were taxpayers, or ratepayers in respect of property, and had residences, in Southern Ireland.
    • 8 members of the Privy Council of Ireland of no less than two years standing who were taxpayers or ratepayers in respect of property in and had residences in Southern Ireland.
  • 14 representatives of County Councils, elected for a term of three years:
    • 4 from each of Leinster, Munster, and Connacht
    • 2 from the three Ulster counties not in Northern Ireland (Cavan, Donegal,and Monaghan)

In practice, however, only 40 senators were selected. The Irish Republic established by Sinn Féin in 1919 rejected the legitimacy of the 1920 Act. Sinn Féin gained control of the county councils in the 1920 local elections. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions and Labour Party supported the Republic, and the Roman Catholic hierarchy also refused to co-operate. Of the incomplete membership, many had participated in the Irish Convention.^[3] Not all those selected attended its few sessions.

In 1922, both the Irish Republic and Southern Ireland were superseded by Irish Free State. Some of the Southern Ireland senators were subsequently senators in the Free State Seanad (upper house), either appointed by W. T. Cosgrave, President of the Executive Council, or elected by the members of the Dáil (lower house).

List

Class	Name	Attendance	Irish Convention	Free State Seanad	Notes
Lord Chancellor of Ireland	Ross, JohnSir John Ross	Too ill to attend			Baronet.
Lord Mayor of Dublin	O'Neill, LaurenceLaurence O'Neill	Boycotted	Member		Independent Nationalist
Lord Mayor of Cork	O'Callaghan, DonalDonal O'Callaghan	Boycotted	Then incumbent (Thomas C. Butterfield) was a member		Sinn Féin. Also returned for Cork Borough in the 1921 election to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland. Article 18(4) of the 1920 Act precluded anyone from sitting in both Houses at once; since O'Callaghan boycotted both, sitting instead in the Second Dáil, the question was moot in his case.
Commerce	Andrews, Edward H.Edward H. Andrews	Attended.	Member		Former president of Dublin chamber of commerce.[4]
Commerce (Retail)	Arnott, JohnSir John Arnott	Attended			Of Arnotts department store. Baronet.
Commerce (Farming)	Everard, NugentSir Nugent Everard	Attended		Appointed	Baronet
Commerce (Banking)	Guinness, HenryHenry Guinness	Attended		Appointed
Commerce (Distilling)	Jameson, AndrewAndrew Jameson	Attended	Member	Appointed
Commerce or Professions	Glynn, H. P.H. P. Glynn	Attended
Commerce or Professions	Westropp, George O'CallaghanGeorge O'Callaghan Westropp	Attended			Landowner and local government activist.[5]
Professions (Education)	Beattie, AndrewSir Andrew Beattie	Attended			Commissioner of National Education. Leading Dublin Presbyterian.
Professions (Education)	Campbell, J. W. R.J. W. R. Campbell	Attended.			Schoolmaster and Methodist minister.[6]
Professions (Law)	Denning, Frederick F.Frederick F. Denning	Attended.			King's Counsel.[7]
Professions (Law)	Gamble, CharlesCharles Gamble	Attended.			President of the Law Society of Ireland.[8]
Professions (Engineering)	Griffith, JohnSir John Griffith	Did not attend		Elected
Professions (Medicine)	Moore, JohnSir John William Moore	Attended			Physician to the Meath Hospital and medical administrator.[9]
Professions (Medicine)	Taylor, WilliamSir William Taylor	Attended			Former President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.[10]
Labour	03 Three Representatives not selected	Boycotted	07 Seven members
Bishop (Roman Catholic)	04 Four Representatives not selected	Did not attend	04 Four members (Cashel, Ross, Raphoe, and Down & Connor).
Bishop (Church of Ireland)	D'Arcy, CharlesCharles D'Arcy	Did not attend.	Predecessor (John Crozier) was a member.		Archbishop of Armagh. The see is mainly in Northern Ireland.
Bishop (Church of Ireland)	Gregg, JohnJohn Gregg	Attended.	Predecessor (John Bernard) was a member.		Archbishop of Dublin
Peer Cloncurry Peer (Baron Cloncurry)	Lawless, FrederickFrederick Lawless	Attended
Peer Desart Peer (Earl of Desart)	Cuffe, HamiltonHamilton Cuffe	Did not attend	Member
Peer Donoughmore Peer (Earl of Donoughmore)	Hely-Hutchinson, RichardRichard Hely-Hutchinson	Did not attend
Peer Dunraven and Mount-Earl Peer (Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl)	Wyndham-Quin, WindhamWindham Wyndham-Quin	Did not attend	Member	Appointed
Peer Freyne Peer (Baron de Freyne)	French, FrancisFrancis French	Did not attend
Peer HolmPatrick Peer (Baron HolmPatrick)	Hamilton, HansHans Hamilton	Did not attend
Peer Inchiquin Peer (Baron Inchiquin)	O'Brien, LuciusLucius O'Brien	Did not attend
Peer Kenmare Peer (Earl of Kenmare)	Browne, ValentineValentine Browne	Did not attend
Peer Mayo Peer (Earl of Mayo)	Bourke, DermotDermot Bourke	Did not attend	Member	Appointed
Peer Midleton Peer (Earl of Midleton)	Brodrick, St JohnSt John Brodrick	Did not attend	Member
Peer Oranmore and Browne Peer (Baron Oranmore and Browne)	Browne, GeoffreyGeoffrey Browne	Did not attend	Member
Peer Powerscourt Peer (Viscount Powerscourt)	Wingfield, MervynMervyn Wingfield	Did not attend
Peer Rathdonnell Peer (Baron Rathdonnell)	McClintock-Bunbury, ThomasThomas McClintock-Bunbury	Attended
Peer Sligo Peer (Marquess of Sligo)	Browne, GeorgeGeorge Browne	Attended
Peer Wicklow Peer (Earl of Wicklow)	Howard, RalphRalph Howard	Did not attend		Appointed
Peer ZZZ Peer	01 16th representative	Did not attend
Privy Councillor	Brabazon, ReginaldReginald Brabazon	Did not attend			Earl of Meath
Privy Councillor	Forbes, BernardBernard Forbes	Did not attend	Member	Appointed	Earl of Granard
Privy Councillor	Goulding, WilliamSir William Goulding	Did not attend.	Member		First of the Goulding baronets
Privy Councillor	Kavanagh, Walter MacMurroughWalter MacMurrough Kavanagh	Did not attend.	Member		Former unionist-turned-nationalist MP,[11] and chairman of County Carlow council.[12]
Privy Councillor	Mahon, BryanSir Bryan Mahon	Attended		Appointed
Privy Councillor	Nugent, AnthonyAnthony Nugent	Did not attend			Earl of Westmeath
Privy Councillor	Stafford, ThomasSir Thomas Stafford	Did not attend	Member		FRCSI; Medical Commissioner of the Local Government Board for Ireland; baronet.[13]
Privy Councillor	Waldron, Laurence AmbroseLaurence Ambrose Waldron	Resigned before the first meeting
County councillor	14 14 Representatives not selected	Boycotted	38 38 members, one per county and county borough; also several from urban district councils.

See also

• Parliament of Southern Ireland.

Sources

• Whyte, Nicholas (17 February 2002). "The Senate of Southern Ireland, 1921". Northern Ireland elections. Access Research Knowledge. Retrieved 8 March 2004.
• Report of the Proceedings of the Irish Convention. Command papers. Cd.9019. Dublin: HMSO. 1918. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
• "Government of Ireland Act, 1920" (PDF). Office of Public Sector Information. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
• "1922 Seanad Members". Members database. Oireachtas. Retrieved 7 September 2013.

Notes

1. Cd.9019, p.13
2. "The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland - from the earliest times to the reign of Queen Victoria" by J. Roderick O'Flanagan, 1870 publication
3. Cd. 9019, pp.52–53
4. "Past Presidents". Dublin Chamber of Commerce. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
5. "Papers of George O’Callaghan-Westropp (1864–1944)". UCD. pp. IE UCDA P38. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
6. The Christian advocate 95. Hunt & Eaton. 1920. p. 993.
7. "Remembrance Day". The Irish law times and solicitors' journal 71: 323. 1937.
8. "The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland". The Irish law times and solicitors' journal 55: 124. 1921.
9. B., J. W.; T. G. Moorehead (23 October 1937). "Obituary: Sir John William Moore". British Medical Journal (4007): 831–834. PMC 2087590.
10. Crawley, Frank C.; H. C. Drury; William Pearson; W. Boxwell (February 1933). "In memoriam. Sir William Taylor (1871–1933)" (PDF). Irish Journal of Medical Science (Springer-Verlag) 8 (2): 86–90. doi:10.1007/BF02954546. ISSN 1863-4362.
11. Maume, Patrick (1999). The long gestation: Irish nationalist life 1891–1918. Gill & Macmillan. p. 101.
12. "Irish point of view on new tillage rules; Rt. Hon. Walter McMurrough Kavanagh Expresses Opinion With Regard to Compulsory Tillage Regulations in Ireland Farmer's Comments How Regulations Appear to an Irish Landowner". Christian Science Monitor (Boston). 28 March 1917. p. 3.
13. "Obituary: Sir Thomas Stafford, Bt., F.R.C.S.I". British Medical Journal 1 (3881): 1102. 25 May 1935. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.3881.1102. PMC 2460354. PMID 20779108.