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In 1883 local rancher and judge Joseph Cary, along with Horace Plunkett, John Hoyt, Morton Post, Francis E. Warren, William Irvine, and Andrew Gilchrist, established the Wyoming Development Company.
Two attempts were made by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith during World War I to implement the Third Home Rule Act, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.
Five years later, at the suggestion of Horace Plunkett it was purchased by the state.
Redmond dropped all interest in agrarian radicalism and, unlike the mainstream nationalists, worked constructively alongside Unionists, such as Horace Plunkett, in the Recess Committee of 1895 which led to the establishment of a department of agriculture in 1899.
His father's cousin, Horace Plunkett, was a Protestant and unionist who sought to reconcile unionists and nationalists.
* Horace Plunkett ( 1854-1932 ), Irish politician
* Irish Department of Agriculture Act and Technical Instructors Act ( 1899 ) ( initiative of Horace Plunkett )
His brother, Horace Plunkett was a key figure in the development of Irish agriculture and the Irish co-operative movement.
He also opposed Horace Plunkett in his attempts to bring Unionists and Nationalists together, and his efforts to help small farmers through his co-operative movement.
A respite from Childers's military career was offered on 27 July 1917, when Sir Horace Plunkett asked that he be assigned to the secretariat of Prime Minister Lloyd George's Home Rule Convention initiative in Dublin Castle.
Two attempts were made by the H. H. Asquith to implement the Third Home Rule Act during the war, first in May 1916 which failed on reaching agreement with Unionist Ulster, then again in 1917 with the calling of the Irish Convention chaired by Horace Plunkett.
* Horace Plunkett
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, had served as Unionist MP for South Dublin ( 1892 – 1900 ), but became a convinced Home Rule supporter by 1912 as an alternative to the partition of Ireland, and served as a member of the first Irish Free State Senate ( 1922 – 23 ).
" A short biography was produced within the year by Shan Bullock at the request of Sir Horace Plunkett, a member of Parliament, who felt that Andrews ' life was worthy of being memorialised.
One legacy of the CDP was the Co-Operative Movement which was founded by Sir Horace Plunkett who had been shocked by his experiences working as a member of the first Board.
* Sir Horace Plunkett, agricultural reformer, whose house was burnt down in 1923 by the IRA during the Irish civil war.
Doneraile also has the distinction of being the town in Ireland where the first successful agricultural co-operative and creamery was established in 1889 by Horace Plunkett.
In 1901, after the Cooperative movement was formed in Ireland by Horace Plunkett, a group comprising ten local farmers set about forming the County Monaghan based Lough Egish dairy co-operative which was until the 1980's independently known as Lough Egish Co-operative and Dairy Society.
The 1923 Free State Land Act adopted many proposals for a final land settlement from decisions reached during the Irish Convention in 1918 under the chairmanship of Horace Plunkett.
* The Irish Agricultural Organisation Society is established by Horace Plunkett.
* Industrialist Horace Plunkett returns to Ireland after his father's death.
Unrest and agitation also resulted in the successful introduction of agricultural co-operatives through the initiative of Horace Plunkett, but the most positive changes came after the introduction of the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 which put the control and running of rural affairs into local hands.
Among its most prominent members were Dublin barrister, Edward Carson, and founder of the Ireland's Co-operative movement, Horace Plunkett.
Some of its leading figures, such as the Earl of Midleton, Lord Dunraven, James Campbell and Horace Plunkett ( a cousin of Count Plunkett ), were appointed in December 1922 by WT Cosgrave to the Free State's first Senate.

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Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
Readers unacquainted with its reputation as a satirical work often do not immediately realize that Swift was not seriously proposing cannibalism and infanticide, nor would readers unfamiliar with the satires of Horace and Juvenal recognize that Swift's essay follows the rules and structure of Latin satires.
According to Porphyrion, the hymn to Hermes was imitated by Horace in one of his own ' sapphic ' odes ( C. 1. 10: Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis ).
His father, Horace Ayckbourn, was an orchestral violinist, at one time deputy leader of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Submitting it to Count Prata, director of the opera, he was told that his piece " was composed with due regard for the rules of Aristotle and Horace, but not according to those laid down for the Italian drama.
The proverbial phrase for it was coined by the Roman poet Horace in his Ars poetica:
To ensure that Cromwell's character used current slang, DeMille asked Horace Hahn to read the script and comment ( at the time, Hahn was senior class president at Los Angeles High School ).
After Zwicky's initial observations, the first indication that the mass to light ratio was anything other than unity came from measurements made by Horace Babcock.
Overall naval commander was now Colin Keppel with other boats commanded by Horace Hood and Walter Cowan who were to remain friends and colleagues.
David had his own pupils, about 40 to 50, and was commissioned by the government to paint " Horace defended by his Father ", but he soon decided, " Only in Rome can I paint Romans.
The 10th edition was a nine-volume supplement to the 9th, but the 11th edition was a completely new work, and is still praised for excellence ; its owner, Horace Hooper, lavished enormous effort on its perfection.
After mentioning that this fish was sacred to Hecate, Alan Davidson writes, " Cicero, Horace, Juvenal, Martial, Pliny, Seneca and Suetonius have left abundant and interesting testimony to the red mullet fever which began to affect wealthy Romans during the last years of the Republic and really gripped them in the early Empire.
After two years of imprisonment, Davis was released on bail of $ 100, 000, which was posted by prominent citizens of both Northern and Southern states, including Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gerrit Smith.
He was the elder of two sons of Gulielma ( née Hollingsworth ) and Horace Franklin Cannon, a country doctor.
Horace Cannon drowned August 7, 1851 when Joseph was fifteen years old as he tried to reach a sick patient by crossing Sugar Creek.
After Virgil died, Horace was Rome's leading poet.
It was in 39 BC that Horace was introduced to Maecenas, who had before this received Lucius Varius Rufus and Virgil into his intimacy.
" Expressions in the Odes of Horace seem to imply that Maecenas was deficient in the robustness of fibre which Romans liked to imagine was characteristic of their city.
It was Virgil, impressed with examples of Horace's poetry, who introduced Horace to Maecenas.
This turris was probably the " molem propinquam nubibus arduis " (" the pile, among the clouds ") mentioned by Horace.

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