A CELT OF MANY PARTS.
Mr. Arthur Lynch, an Irish member of the House of Commons, who warmly advocated the Government's stand on the war question, ha* had one of the moat romantic careers of any member in the House. On the outbreak of the Boer War he organised the 2nd Irish Brigade, which he operated under <*enf-ral Botha, and fought in Natal against the British troops. After the war he went to Paris, and while there, in lflOl, he was elected by a Inrgt majority as Nationalist member of Parliament for Galway. On going to England to take his seat, however, ho was am^ted, and on 23rd January, 1903, was convicted of high treason and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. A year later he was released on license, and he received a free pardon on 10th June, 1907 He is on© of the most versatile and erudite men in tbe House, being a journalist, it. civil engineer, a poet, and a phyeician He ha* also written a novel in French,
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10
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178A CELT OF MANY PARTS. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10
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