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| Sir James Brown Dougherty (13 November 1844 - 3 January, 1934)<ref>]'']</ref>, P.C., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., born in Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, Ireland to Archibald Dougherty, a surgeon. He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and at Queen's University, Belfast (II. A. 1864 & M.A., 1865). | Sir James Brown Dougherty (13 November 1844 - 3 January, 1934)<ref>]'']</ref>, P.C., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., born in Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, Ireland to Archibald Dougherty, a surgeon. He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and at Queen's University, Belfast (II. A. 1864 & M.A., 1865). | ||
| In 1880, he married Mary Dougherty ( |
In 1880, he married Mary Dougherty (née Donaldson) (d.1887), of The Park, Nottingham. In 1888, he married Elizabet Dougherty (née Todd), of Oaklands, Rathgar, co. Dublin. | ||
| Donaldson, of The Park, Nottingham ; 2ndly, 1888, Eliza, da. of Henry W. | |||
| Todd, of Oaklands, Rathgar, co. Dublin | |||
| Ordained a Presbyterian Minister, he became Professor of Logic and English at Magee College, Londonderry 1879-95. He served as Assistant Commissioner on the Educational Endowments Commission of Ireland (1885-92) and was Commissioner of Education from 1890 to 1895. | |||
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Sir James Brown Dougherty (13 November 1844 - 3 January, 1934), P.C., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., born in Garvagh, Co. Londonderry, Ireland to Archibald Dougherty, a surgeon. He was educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and at Queen's University, Belfast (II. A. 1864 & M.A., 1865).
In 1880, he married Mary Dougherty (née Donaldson) (d.1887), of The Park, Nottingham. In 1888, he married Elizabet Dougherty (née Todd), of Oaklands, Rathgar, co. Dublin.
Ordained a Presbyterian Minister, he became Professor of Logic and English at Magee College, Londonderry 1879-95. He served as Assistant Commissioner on the Educational Endowments Commission of Ireland (1885-92) and was Commissioner of Education from 1890 to 1895.
was Under-Secretary for Ireland from 1908-1914, and a Liberal MP for Londonderry City from 1914-18, succeeding fellow Liberal David Cleghorn Hogg. He was succeeded by Eoin MacNeill of Sinn Féin in the 1918 general election, who in line with abstentionist Sinn Féin policy refused to take his seat in the Commons and sat instead in the newly-convened Dáil Éireann.
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