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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO

Squadron, 1918. Officer of Legion D'Honneur; Companion of the Order of St. Anne of Russia; Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan, 2nd Class. Club: Naval and Military.

BRUEN, Henry, son of late Right Hon. Henry Bruen, of Oak Park, Carlow, D.L.. Co. Carlow; m. 1886, Agnes M., dau. of late Right Hon. Arthur McMurrough Kavanagh, of Borris House, Co. Carlow; late Lieut. R. A.: educated at Harrow and R.M.A., Woolwich. Recns.: golfing, shooting. Res.: Oak Park, Carlow. Clubs: Naval and Military, London, and Kildare Street, Dublin.

BRUNSKILL, Lt.-Col. John Handfield, D.S.O. (1917), O.B.E. (1919), B.A.. M.B., B.Ch., D.P.H. (T.C.D.); late Lieut.-Col. R.A.M.C.; served in European War, 1914-17; son of late Thomas Brunskill, of Dublin; b. 1875; m. 1913, Elizabeth Mabel, dau. of late Archibald Robinson, of London. Res.: Manorgate, Kingston Hill, Surrey.

BRYAN, Loftus Anthony, Capt. Waterford R.G.A. (Mil.), 1891-1904; Major, 1914; Lieut.-Col.. R.F.A., 1916; D.L., J.P., Co. Wexford (Sheriff, 1892); only son of late Loftus A. Bryan, M.A., of Highfield Manor, Co. Dublin, and nephew of late Wm. I. Bryan, M.A., LL.B., J.P., of Borrmount Manor and Upton House, Co. Wexford; b. 1867; m. 1886, Annie, youngest dau. of M. R. Ryan, J.P., of Temple Mungret, Co. Limerick. Res.: Borrmount Manor. Enniscorthy; Upton House, Kilmuckridge, Gorey; Kilgibbon House, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.

BRYAN, Hon. Richard Eustace Bellew, brother and heir-presumptive to the present Baron Bellew; b. 1858; m. 1887, Ada (1893), dau. of late Henry P. Gilbey; 2nd 1895, Gwendoline, dau. of W. R. G. Fitzherbert Herbert, of Clytha, Usk, Mon. and has issue. Res.: Mount Firoda, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny.

BUCKLEY, Daniel, M.P. for North Kildare from Dec. 1918; (T.D. for Kildare and Wicklow Cos. in Parliament of S. Ireland, 1921); Chairman, Kildare Co. Council. Res.: Main Street, Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

BUCKLEY, James, M.R.I.A.; admitted Solicitor (Ireland), 1892: entered first div. Home Civil Service, 1895; council member of the Cork Historical and Archæological Society; sometime Chairman of the Irish Texts Society; b. 6th Oct., 1870; 4th son of the late John Buckley, of Annakissy, Co. Cork; m. 1897, Sarah Anne (d. 1915), eldest dau. of the late Thomas Clancy, M.D., of Ballyhooly and Mitchelstown, Co. Cork (whose mother, Sarah, was dau. of Walter, son of Charles MacCarthy, "the lineal representative of the ancient family of Drishane" (Burke's Commoners, ed. 1835), whilom Lords of Muskerry; two sons, three daus. Pubns.: papers in the Journal of the Cork H. and A. Society and other Irish antiquarian magazines. Recns.; sea-fishing, book-hunting, walking. Address: 11 Homefield Road, Wimbledon, Surrey.

BUCKLEY, John J. Educ.: local National School, and Catholic University School, Dublin (Marist Fathers); Keeper of Art and Industrial Divn., National Museum, Dublin, since 1909; M.R.I.A.; Member of Classical Association of Ireland, and of Irish Texts Soc.; b. 1863; son of late Cornelius Buckley, merchant, of Maynooth, Co. Kildare; m. (1898), Ellen Mary, dau. of late Michael Cronin, Liverpool. Res.; St. Finbar's, York Road, Rathgar, Dublin.

BULFIN, Francis (M.P. for Leix and Offaly from 1921); Chairman Birr No. 1 Rural District Council, and Ex-Officio Member of King's Co. County Council. Res.: Derrinlough, Birr, King's Co.

BULLOCK, Shan F. (otherwise John William Bullock), M.B.E. (), British Civil Service from 1884; Secretariat, Irish Convention, 1917-18: Novelist, author, playwright, etc. Educ.: Farra School, Co. Westmeath, and King's College, London. Pubns.: The Awkward Squads, 1893; By Thrasna River, 1895: Ring o' Rushes, 1896; The Charmer, 1897; The Barrys, 1899; Irish Pastorals, 1901; The Squireen, 1903; The Red Leaguers, 1904; Dan the Dollar, 1905; The Cubs, 1906; Robert Thorne, 1907; A Laughing Matter, 1908; Master John. 1909; Hetty, 1911; Thomas Andrews, Shipbuilder, 1912; The Race of Castlebar (with Miss Lawless), 1913; The Making of a Soldier, 1916; Mr. Ruby jumps the Traces, 1917. Plays: Primrose Jane, produced by Ulster Players in Belfast, 1914; The Turf Cutters, produced by Irish Literary Society, London, 1922. Recns.: walking, golf, cycling, swimming. Eldest son of Thomas Bullock, J.P., of Killynick House, Fermanagh; b. 1865; m. 1889, Emma, 2nd dau. of Henry Mitchell, and has issue 1 son, 1 dau. Res.: Emo, York Road, Cheam, Surrey. Club: Whitefriars.

BUNBURY, Brig.-Gen. Vesey Thos., C.B. (1911); C.M.G. (1915), D.S.O. (1898), 1914 Star; Commander, Order of the Crown of Belgium; Croix de Guerre, Belgium. Educ.; St. Columba's College, Co. Dublin; 2nd Lieut., 35th Foot, 1879; 2nd Lieut.. The Buffs, 1879; Captain, The Buffs, 1887; Captain, The Leicestershire Regt., 1887; Adjt., 2nd Batt., 1891-95: Brevet Major, 1897; Major, 1900; Lieut.-Col., 1906; Colonel, 1910; Brig-Gen., 1916; served in Burma, 1889, in command