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Barrister. Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire) (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who served as the Attorney General and Solicitor General for England, Wales and Ireland as well as the First Lord of the Admiralty for the British ...
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (born Feb. 9, 1854, Dublin, Ire.—died Oct. 22, 1935, Minster, Kent, Eng.) , known as the “uncrowned king of Ulster,” was a lawyer and politician who successfully led Ulster unionist resistance to the British government’s attempts to introduce Home Rule for the whole of Ireland.
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Jan 23, 2021 · Did Edward Carson destroy Oscar Wilde? In a new documentary set to screen on BBC NI, Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland asks if Carson deserves the reputation as the man who took down his grandfather ...
Edward Carson was a prominent Irish lawyer and politician who led the Ulster Unionist movement against home rule. He played a role in the 1916 Easter Rising and the Anglo-Irish Treaty, but died in 1935.
Edward Carson, who became the intransigent leader of Ulster unionism, was born in Harcourt Street, Dublin, in 1854 and died in Kent in 1935 after a tempestuous legal and political career. He was ...
Mar 25, 2015 · Learn about Edward Carson, the leader of the anti-Home Rule movement in Ulster and a prominent politician in Westminster. Find out his role in the Ulster Covenant, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the First World War.
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Carson, Sir EdwardOne of the founders of Northern Ireland and a central leader of Irish unionism, Edward Carson (1854–1935) was born and raised in Dublin. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Carson became a very successful barrister, participating in the first Oscar Wilde trial and other landmark cases of the 1890s.
