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Thom's Irish Who's Who/Samuels, The Right Hon. Arthur Warren

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SAMUELS, The Right Hon. Arthur Warren, P.C. (1918); Barrister King's Inns, 1887; Q.C., 1894; called to English Bar, 1896; Bencher King's Inns; Bencher of Gray's Inn, 1919; a Justice of the King's Bench Division, High Court of Justice, Ireland, from July 1919: Attorney-General for Ireland, 1918-19; Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1917-18; Permanent Counsel and Crown Prosecutor for G.P.O., Ireland, 1900-17; M.P. for Dublin University, 1917-19; President of the Social and Statistical Society for Ireland, 1906-08: Chancellor of Diocese of Armagh and of United Dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore and of the United Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. Pubns.: pamphlets on Irish Financial Questions: The Expenditure Account, The Financial Report, What it Finds; The Fiscal Question; Features of Recent Irish Finance; Home Rule: What is It?, 1910; Home Rule Finance, 1912; articles on Private Bill Procedure and Devolution, and against Home Rule; Articles in Quarterly and other Reviews. Recns.: sailing, rowing, angling, ex-Captain Dublin University Rowing Club; second son of late Arthur Samuels, M.A., Langara, Kingstown, and Katharine, dau. of Owen Daly, J.P., of Mornington, Co. Westmeath; m. 1881, Emma Margaret (d. 1904), dau. of Rev. James Irwin, M.A., of Sharon, Co. Donegal. Res.: Cloghereen, Howth, Co. Dublin.