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James Dougherty (civil servant)

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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 was Professor of Logic and English at Magee College, Londonderry from 1879 to 1895. He served as Assistant Commissioner on the Educational Endowments Commission of Ireland (1885-92) and was Commissioner of Education from 1890 to 1895. In 1895, he was appointed Assistant Under-Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland (Baron Houghton) and became Under-Secretary for Ireland in 1908. He was appointed Clerk to H.M.'s Privy Council, and Deputy Keeper of the Privy Seal in 1895. He became 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.

Awards

Companion of the Bath (Civil Division), 1900; Knight Bachelor, 1902, Companion of the Royal Victorian Order, 1903; Knight Commander of the Bath (Civil Division), 1910; Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, 1911.


References

  1. "Sir James Dougherty" Hansard
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