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New Zealand Tablet, 7 December 1911, Page 2485

Mr. William A. Macdonald, ex-Nationalist M.P. for Ossory Division of Queen's County, died suddenly on October 4 at Chalfont, St. Peter, Bucks. He was a graduate and scholar of T.C.D., and was first returned for Ossory in 1886 unopposed, tie followed Parnell af the ‘split,’ and did not seek re-election in 1892. In 1895 he stood again for his old constituency as a Parnellite, but only received 383 votes. He then disappeared from Irish politics. Mr. Macdonald was afflicted with blindness, and he entered the House of Commons just two years after the death of Mr. Fawcett, the blind Postmaster-General. -