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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

PIM, The Right Hon. Jonathan, P.C. (Irld. 1914), M.A. (T.C.D.), a Justice of the King's Bench Division, High Court of Justice, Ireland, 1915; Attorney-Gen. for Ireland, 1914-15; Solicitor-Gen. for Ireland, 1913-14; Barrister King's Inns, 1886; K.C. 1909; Bencher 1913; Commissioner of Charitable Donations and Bequests; Trustee of the National Library. Son of the late Thomas Pim, of Greenbank, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Res.: 10 Herbert Street, Dublin. Clubs: University and Stephen's Green, Dublin Reform and Royal Societies, London.

PIMLOTT, James, Chief Inspector, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland; b. 1881. Res.: Belfast.

PIRRIE, Viscount (Unit. Kgd., 1921), Baron Pirrie (Unit. Kgd., 1906), William James Pirrie, 1st Viscount, K.P. (1908), P.C. Gt. Brit. (1918), P.C. (Irld., 1897), LL.D., D.Sc.; Comp. of Shipbuilding, 1918; Chairman of Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Shipbuilders and Engineers H.M.L.; for County of City of Belfast and J.P. Cos. Antrim (High Sheriff, 1918), and Down (High Sheriff. 1899); Lord Mayor of Belfast, 1896-97; Pro-Chancellor, Queen's University of Belfast: Controller-General of Merchant Shipbuilding, 1918-19; Member of Senate of Northern Ireland, 1921; son of James A. Pirrie; b. 1847; m. 1879, Margaret Montgomery, dau. of John Carlisle. Res.: Witley Park, Godalming, Surrey; 24 Belgrave Square, S.W.; Ormiston, Strandtown, Belfast. Clubs: Reform, London; Ulster, Belfast; Kildare Street, Dublin.

PLACE, Major Charles Godfrey Morris, late East Surrey Regt.; D.S.O. (1917); M.C. (1916), B.A., LL.B., Dublin University; Barrister-at-Law, King's Inns, 1909. Educ.: St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham; Trinity College, Dublin. Served European War, 1914-1919. Recns.: fishing: only son of George William Place, late I.C.S.; b. 1886; m. 1916, Anna Margaret, dau. of late W. A. Stuart-William, Public Works Dept., India, and has issue one dau. Res.: Entebbe, Uganda.

PLACE, Thomas Dumayne, J.P. for Cos. Wexford and Carlow. Educ. at Tullabeg; eldest son of late Capt. Thos. Place and Madalina, dau. of Jas. Edmond Byrne, of Kimmage Grove, Co. Dublin; b. 1849. Res.: Mount Elliott, New Ross, Co. Wexford.

PLUNKET, Hon. Brinsley Sheridan Bushe; second son of 5th Baron Plunket; b. 28th June, 1903; heir presumptive to Barony.

PLUNKET, Hon. Denis Kiwa, third son of 5th Baron Plunket; b. 1909.

PLUNKET, Baron (Unit. Kgd. 1827), Terence Conyngham Plunket, 6th Baron; Lieut. Rifle Brigade. Educ. at Wellington College and R.M.C.; eldest son of William Lee, 5th Baron, and Lady Victoria, dau. of 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava; she m., 2nd, 1920, Lieut.-Col. Francis Powell Braithwaite, D.S.O., M.C.; b. 12th July, 1899; s. his father 24th Jan., 1920. Res.: 12 Hans Crescent, London, S.W. 7.; Old Connaught House, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

PLUNKET, Baroness, Victoria Alexandrina, third dau of 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, K.P., P.C.; m. 1894, 5th Baron Plunket, G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., K.B.E. (d. 1920). Res.: 12 Hans Crescent, London, S.W.

PLUNKETT, George Noble, Count; Commander of Order of the Holy Sepulchre; Cross of St. John of Lateran; Grand Cross of SS. Cyril and Methodius, Bulgaria (Holy See); F.S.A., M.R.I.A.; Pres. R.S.A.I.; Hon. Assoc. R.I.B.A.; F.R.S.L.: Barrister King's Inns, 1886. Educ.: Nice; Clongowes College; Dublin University, Prizeman in French language and literature, T.C.D.; Hon. Member of University Philosophical Society; Vice-President of Royal Irish Academy 1907-8 and 1911-14 and representative of Academy on Nobel Prize Committee for Literature; formerly Director of National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin; Hon. Academician of San Luca, and dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, Rome, and of the Belle Arti, Florence, and Hon. Professor of the Fine Arts; Corresponding Member of the Academie Royale d'Archeologie de Belgique, and of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquarians, Copenhagen; President, Society for Preservation of the Irish Language; President of Museums Association, 1911-12; Vice-Pres. of National Literary Society, Classical Association of Ireland, Celtic Congress (Brussels) Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland, the International Art Congress, etc.; Governor of the Royal Irish Academy of Music; Member of Techn. and Agricultural Committee, Dublin C.C.; of Kildare Archaeological Society; of American-Irish Historical Society, New York; of Association of Irish Artists; of Society of Painters in Tempera; of Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Francais, of Society Philologique of Amis de Paris; of Society of Authors; of British School at Rome; of Society of Roman Studies, and Hellenic Society: of Council, Dante Society (London); has given courses of lectures on the history of art, Irish archaeology, Irish painters, sculptors, architects, writers, etc.; Chairman Press Fund (Dublin); Associate, Institute of Journalists; Member of British International Association of Journalists. Pubns.: Sandro Botticelli, 1900; co-editor with Rev. Dr. Hogan, F.R.U.I. of The Jacobite War in Ireland, 1894; editor of M. Stoke's Early Christian