NEW PRESIDENT?
IRISH FREE STATE.
Deprived British Peer Returns
From Czechoslovakia.
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(Received 1 p.m.) DUBLIN*, December 6.
Viscount Taaffe, a descendant of a Welsh family, resident for 300 years in Ireland and later settled in Bohemia, has arrived here. He refused to make any comment on the suggestion that he was to be Mr. de Valera's nominee as Irish President.
He will apply immediately for Free State citizenship aud will resign from the Czechoslovakia!! Army.
Hβ said he will not at present petition the British Government for the restoration of the peerage, of which his father was deprived during the war.
According to Whitaker's peerage the Taaffe ;s an Irish peerage of 1628, which was extinguished by Act of Parliament in 1917 and confirmed by Order-in-Council in 1919—the then holder being an enemy peer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 290, 7 December 1937, Page 7
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