XXVI ‘The man on a tricycle’ : W. H. Duignan and Ireland, 1881–5

Christopher Howard

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XXVI ‘The man on a tricycle’ : W. H. Duignan and Ireland, 1881–5

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Christopher Howard

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Information: Irish Historical Studies , Volume 14 , Issue 55 , March 1965 , pp. 246 - 260

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002112140002037X [Opens in a new window]
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^{page no 246 note 1} Copy, sent to Chamberlain, of O’Shea’s letter to Parnell, 19 Jan. 1885 (Joseph Chamberlain papers, for which see n. 3, below; printed above, viii. 246).

^{page no 246 note 2} This seems evident from the copy of O’Shea’s letter to Parnell, 19 Jan. 1885. I have not found any previous reference to lignum’ or ‘Duignan’ in O‘Shea’s letters among the Chamberlain papers.

^{page no 246 note 3} Duignan to Chamberlain, 24 Oct. 1884 (printed below). For the date of this letter see below. This and the other letters cited in this article or printed below are among the papers of Joseph Chamberlain, now in the Library of the University of Birmingham. I am indebted to the Librarian of the University for permission to publish them here. The documents that relate to Duignan comprise • (i) Thirteen MS letters from Duignan to Chamberlain, 1874-94. (ii) MS copies of Chamberlain’s more important letters to Duignan, 1884-93. (m) Typewritten copies of twenty-three letters from Chamberlain to Duignan, 1873-94, made from MS originals lent by the late Carl Duignan (son of W. H. Duignan) to Chamberlain’s executors, (iv) Twelve MS letters from Chamberlain to Duignan, 1881–94, bought in 1939 from a book-seller, (v) Letters to Duignan from various correspondents bought in the same book-seller’s lot. (vi) Letters to Duignan from various correspondents, written in connexion with the ‘central board’ scheme and forwarded by him to Chamberlain in Feb. 1885. (vii) Chamberlain’s correspondence with Morley and O’Shea.

^{page no 247 note 4} Printed in The Times, 6 July 1893, and above, viii. 240–2.

^{page no 247 note 5} See’ Joseph Chamberlain, Parnell and the Irish “central board” scheme, 1884–5’ (above, viii. 324–61).

^{page no 247 note 6} Katharine O’Shea (Mrs Charles Stewart Parnell), Charles Stewart Parnell : his love story and political life, ii. 202, 278.

^{page no 247 note 7} Harrison, Henry, Parnell vindicated, p. 443.Google Scholar See also pp. 293 n. and 356. Captain Harrison once told me in conversation that this was the only point in Parnell vindicated concerning which he was prepared to admit that he had been mistaken.

^{page no 247 note 8} See n. 3 above.

^{page no 247 note 9} Obituary notice in the Birmingham Daily Post (hereafter cited as c B.D.P.% 28 Mar. 1914.

^{page no 247 note 10} Register of baptisms, Walsall parish church.

^{page no 247 note 11} I am indebted for this information to Mr E. H. Dance, of Wolverhampton, who was formerly acquainted with the late Carl Duignan, son of william Henry Duignan.

^{page no 248 note 12} Register of baptisms, Walsall parish church, 20 Aug. 1824.

^{page no 248 note 13} B.D.P., 28 Mar. 1914.

^{page no 248 note 14} Law list, 1847.

^{page no 248 note 15} Ibid., 1847–1911.

^{page no 248 note 16} B.D. P., 28 Mar. 1914.

^{page no 248 note 17} Ibid.

^{page no 248 note 18} See Duignan’s letters to Chamberlain, printed below; also n. 21, below

^{page no 248 note 19} He was baptized and buried according to the rites of the church of England (Register of baptisms, Walsall parish church, 20 Aug. 1824, B.DP., ι Apr. 1914). In his letters to Chamberlain of 14 and 25 Nov-1881 (printed below) he quotes the book of common prayer.

^{page no 248 note 20} B.D. P., ι Apr. 1914.

^{page no 248 note 21} He edited The charter of Wulfram (1888) and was the author of works on the place-names of Staffordshire (1902), Worcestershire (1905) and Warwickshire (1912) and of a brief History of Rushall Hall (1924). He was a fellow of the Societies of Antiquaries of both London and Dublin. (Information kindly supplied by the secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London.)

^{page no 248 note 22} Duignan to Chamberlain, 8 Nov. 1881 (printed below).

^{page no 248 note 23} Duignan to Chamberlain, 6 Feb. 1874.

^{page no 248 note 24} This letter has not been preserved, but its import is clear from Chamberlain’s reply, 28 June 1873 (copy), quoted in J. L. Garvin, Life of Joseph Chamberlain, i. 155.

^{page no 248 note 25} Nine copies of letters from Chamberlain to Duignan written in the period 1873-6 have survived. (See n. 3, above.) Unfortunately, only one letter written in this period by Duignan to Chamberlain has been preserved, that of 6 Feb. 1874.

^{page no 249 note 26} Duignan to Chamberlain, 6 Feb. 1874.

^{page no 249 note 27} Duignan to Chamberlain, 6 Nov 1881 (printed below).

^{page no 1 note 28} Chamberlain to Duignan, 7 Nov. 1881 ; Duignan to Chamberlain, 4 July 1893 (printed in The Times, 6 July 1893).

^{page no 249 note 29} Duignan to Chamberlain, 14 Nov 1881 (printed below).

^{page no 249 note 30} Duignan to Chamberlain, 25 Nov. 1881 (printed below).

^{page no 249 note 31} Chamberlain to Duignan, 3 and 6 Dec. 1881.

^{page no 249 note 32} Chamberlain to Morley, 18 Dec. 1881 (copy).

^{page no 249 note 33} Duignan to Chamberlain, 24 Oct. 1884 (printed below).

^{page no 250 note 34} Duignan to Chamberlain, 19 Nov- 1885 (printed below).

^{page no 250 note 35} Duignan to Chamberlain, 4 July 1893 (printed in The Times, 6 July 1893); see also below.

^{page no 250 note 36} Ibid.

^{page no 250 note 37} 4 Hansard [14]. 721–4 (1893).

^{page no 250 note 38} Duignan to Chamberlain, 4 July 1893 (printed in The Times, 6 July 1893).

^{page no 250 note 39} Duignan to Walsall liberal association, printed in B. D. P., 7 Dec. 1893.

^{page no 250 note 40} Duignan to Walsall liberal association, printed in Β. D. P., 6 Nov ι894.

^{page no 250 note 41} J- T. Renshaw (secretary, Walsall liberal association) to Duignan, 6 Nov 1894.

^{page no 250 note 42} B.D. P., 28 Mar. 1914.

^{page no 250 note 43} Chamberlain’s letters to Duignan were mostly somewhat distant m tone. The relationship between the two men was discussed in Duignan’s letter to Chamberlain of 4 July and that of Chamberlain to Duignan of 5 July, printed in The Times, 6 July 1893.

^{page no 250 note 44} At least, so far as I can ascertain. There are no letters from any leading English politician, other than Chamberlain, among Duignan’s papers, listed in n. 3, above.

^{page no 251 note 45} J. E. Kenny to Duignan, 22 Oct. 1884; T. D. Sullivan to Duignan, 26 Dec. 1884 and 1 Feb. 1891 ; T. M. Healy to Duignan, 11 Jan. 1885 (copy; printed above, viii. 243–5) and 12 and 14 July 1893. The first letter from Sullivan and all three from Healy relate to the 4 central board’ scheme.

^{page no 251 note 46} See above, viii. 333, 338.

^{page no 251 note 47} See Duignan to Chamberlain, 19 Nov. 1885 (printed below).

^{page no 251 note 1} see n.21,above.

^{page no 251 note 2} Herbort Gladestone was ajunior lord of thetreasury atteched of the Irih office he was the Irelend in the attumn of1881 (viscount Gladstone After thirty years,1928 pp.262–72.)

^{page no 252 note 3} When A. M. Sullivan died in 1884 Duignan helped J. E. Kenny to raise a fund for his widow and children. (Kenny to Duignan, 22 Oct. 1884; Duignan to Chamberlain, 27 and 29 Oct. 1884.)

^{page no 252 note 4} Twenty-five, including Prussia but not including Alsace-Lorraine.

^{page no 252 note 5} Question mark omitted.

^{page no 253 note 6} 12 Nov. 1881.

^{page no 253 note 7} For the condition of Dillon and the other ‘suspects’ in Kilmainham see Freeman’s Journal, 29 Nov. 1881

^{page no 253 note 8} Book of Common Prayer : the litany.

^{page no 253 note 9} Ibid : collect or prayer for all conditions of men.

^{page no 254 note 10} Cf. Duignan to Chamberlain, 24 Oct. 1884 (printed below).

^{page no 254 note 11} For a report of the decisions of the western sub-commission, sitting at Ballina, see Freeman’s Journal, 22 and 23 Nov. 1881.

^{page no 254 note 12} For a report of the southern sub-commission, sitting at Limerick, see Freeman’s Journal, 21–24 Nov. 1881.

^{page no 255 note 13} 25 pet. 1881.

^{page no 255 note 14} This letter is dated simply ‘October 1884’. But in another letter to Chamberlain, dated 27 Oct. 1884, Duignan refers to ‘my letter of Friday’ The Friday preceding 27 Oct. 1884 was Oct. 24.

^{page no 255 note 15} Evidently a slip for ‘Arthur’, the name which appears in the first draft of this letter. Arthur Chamberlain was the third of the six Chamberlain brothers, of whom Joseph Chamberlain was the eldest. None of the brothers was called Alfred. I am indebted for this information to Lady Longford, grand-daughter of Arthur Chamberlain.

^{page no 257 note 16} Not preserved.

^{page no 257 note 17} Chief secretary, 1882–4.

^{page no 258 note 18} Later Lord Russell of Killowen. At this time he was liberal M.P for Dundalk, a small borough that was due for disfranchisement, and he had to find another seat. In 1885 he was returned for Hackney (south).

^{page no 258 note 19} Cf. Duignan’s letter of 25 Nov. 1881 (above). The last two sentences of this paragraph have been inserted in Duignan’s own hand-writing.

^{page no 259 note 20} The post-script is in Duignan’s own hand-writing.

^{page no 260 note 21} 8 Sept. 1885.

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