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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

journal he has occasionally contributed; He has also published a volume of Irish Folk-Songs, gathered in Donegal, under the title "Songs of Uladh"; son of Frederick Patrick Hughes and Mary Elizabeth MacLean; b. in Belfast 16th March, 1882. Res.: Edenville, Bangor, Co. Down, Ireland.

HUGHES, Peter (M.P. for Cos. Louth and Meath from 1921); Member of the Louth County Council; Chairman Dundalk Urban Council, 1917-1922; Chairman Dundalk Board of Guardians, 1920-22; Chairman Committee of Technical Instruction (Dundalk and Co. Louth), 1921-22. Res.: Park Street, Dundalk.

HUME, William Hume, D.L., J.P., Co. Wicklow (High Sheriff, 1896), was Attaché at Paris, 1885-92; b. 1858. Res.: Humewood, Kiltegan, Co. Wicklow. Kildare Street Club, Dublin.

HUMPHREYS, Col. Gardiner, C.B. (1915), C.M.G. (1918), D.S.O. (1900), Legion of Honour; Croix de Guerre; b. 1865; entered R.A., 1884, became Captain, 1893, Major, 1900, Lieut.-Col., 1910, and Col. 1915; served in S. Africa 1899-1901; European War, 1914-18, on Staff. Commanded 49th Brig. R.F.A., Ireland, 1910-12; 13th Brig. R.H.A., Mhow, 1912; m. 1906, Lady Emily Theresa Nugent, dau. of 10th Earl of Westmeath. Res.: Glenconnor, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

HUNT, Lieut.-Col. John Patrick, C.M.G. (1919), D.S.O. (1916), M.C.. D.C.M. (1916). Educ. at Christian Bros.' Schools: served in S. African War; Instructor Dublin Univ. O.T.C., 1910; re-enlisted for European War, 1914; Lieut, and Adjt., 1915 Capt. and Actg Lieut.-Col. Roy. Dublin Fus., 1916; son of Thomas Hunt; b. 1875; m. Bertha Moore (four sons, one dau.). Res.: 50 Rathdown Road, N. Circular Road, Dublin.

HUNTER, Thomas (M.P. for North-East Cork from 1918). Res.: Castletownroche, Co. Cork.

HUNTINGDON, Earl of (Engl., 1529) Warner Francis John Plantagenet Hastings, 14th Earl; Lieut.-Col. late Comdg. 3rd Batt. Prince of Wales's Leinster Regt. (Roy. Canadians); D.L. King's Co.; Ex-Master Ormond Foxhounds, and East Galway Foxhounds: eldest son of Francis Power, 13th Earl, and Mary Ann (d. 1894), dau. of the late Col. the Hon. John Craven Westenra; b. 8th July, 1868; s. his father 20th May, 1885; m. 11th June 1892, Maud, dau. of Sir Samuel Wilson, and has issue one son and three daus Res.: Sharavogue, King's Co. Clubs: Carlton, Ranelagh, London; Kildare Street, Dublin.

HUTCHINSON, Captain Samuel James, LL.D., J.P.; b. 28th March, 1887, at Hillsborough, Co. Down; eldest son of Samuel Corbett Hutchinson. Educ.: privately; Middle Temple. Gazetted from Queen's University Officers' Training Corps to Commission in London Regt., 1912; served in the Great War (1914-15 Star; British War Medal; Allied Victory Medal). Captain Regular Army, Reserve of Officers. Member of British War Mission to United States, and attached Military Staff, British Embassy, Washington, 1918; toured the greater part of the United States on a Victory propaganda mission organised by the British and American Governments for the education of public opinion on the necessity of winning the War. Mentioned by the Secretary of State for War for valuable services, and received the thanks of the United States Government. LL.D. (Hon. Causa); J.P., County of Down; Member Roads Advisory Committee of Ministry of Home Affairs, Northern Ireland; Life Governor Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast; Member Ulster Unionist Council; Hon. Treasurer Mid-Down Unionist Association; Member Diocesan Synod of Down; Director Hutchinson, Haddow A Co., Ltd., and J. B. Ferguson, Ltd., Belfast. Res.: Combermere House, Hillsborough, Co. Down. Club: Constitutional, London.

HYDE, Douglas, B.A. LL.D., D.Litt. (known in Ireland as "An Craoibhin Aoibhinn"); historian, poet, and folklorist; youngest son of late Rev. Arthur Hyde, Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon. Educ: Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. (with first Senior Moderatorship and large Gold Medal), 1884; LL.D., 1887; D.Litt (Hon.) R.U.I., 1906. Interim Prof. Mod. Lang., State University of New Brunswick, 1891; President of Irish National Literary Society, 1894-95; President of Gaelic League since its foundation, 1893, till 1915, when he resigned; President Irish Texts Society; Examiner in Celtic to Royal University of Ireland; Assist. Editor New Irish Library, 1897; received honorary freedom of cities of Dublin, Cork, and Kilkenny, 1906, on returning from U.S.A. with £11000 for the Gaelic League, 1906; Member of Royal Commission on Irish University Education, 1906; Freedom of Limerick, 1909; Member of the Senate, 1909-19: and Professor of Modern Irish in the National University of Ireland, 1909. Pubns.: Leabhar Sgeuluigheachta, 1889; Beside the Fire, 1890; Cois na teineadh, 1891; Love Songs of Connacht, 1894; Three Sorrows of Story-telling, 1895; Story of Early Irish Literature, 1897; An Sgeuluidhe Gaodhalach, cuid I. 1898, cuid II. 1899, cuid III. 1901 (French translation, 1901); A Literary History of Ireland. 1899; Mediæval Tales from the Irish, being Vol. I. of Irish Texts Society, 1899; Ubhla den Chraoibh (a volume of poems in Irish), 1900; Casadh an tsugáin, a play in Irish, produced in the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin,