Notable South Australians/P. McM. Glynn, B.A., LL.B.
P. McM. Glynn, B.A., LL.B.,
BORN in Gort, Ireland, August 25, 1855. Educated at the French College, Blackrock; and on leaving there was apprenticed to a solicitor practising in Dublin. After three years the indentures were cancelled, and Mr. Glynn joined the King's Inns as a Law Student, and entered the Dublin University, in which he graduated in arts in July 1878, and subsequently took the degree of Bachelor of Laws; obtained a certificate for oratory from the College Historical Society, Dublin University, and a silver medal for oratory from the Law Students' Debating Society of Ireland in 1880. In the discussions of these societies he always supported the cause of Land Law Reform and the principle of Local Government. He spent a year and a half in London, studying law in the Middle Temple, and was called to the Irish Bar in April 1879. In September 1880 Mr. Glynn left for Melbourne, and was called to the Victorian Bar in December following.. He both wrote and spoke upon the Irish question in that city, and published, with an introduction, the speech of the late Mr. A. M. Sullivan on behalf of the Land Leaguers during the Irish State Trials in 1880-81. He arrived in South Australia July 2, 1882, and from the following August has practised law in Kapunda, having been admitted a practitioner of the Supreme Court in July 1883* Since the death of Mr. James Elliott, in April 1883, he has been editor of the Kapunda Herald^,and was one of the founders of the Land Nationalization Society in May 1884, for which he has lectured and written with much ability. It would be somewhat impolitic here to enter into particulars of the principles of the S. A. Land Nationalization Society, of which Mr. Glynn is so able a representative, the more especially so, as they are now being widely disseminated, from both pulpit and platform, week after week by logical and earnest orators. Suffice it, everything shows that the day is at hand when the victory for which Mr. Henry George has so ably striven will be won, and Land Nationalization become an established fact.