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REDMOND, JOHN EDWARD (1851- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REDMOND, See also:JOHN See also:EDWARD (1851- ) , Irish politician, son of W. A. Redmond, M.P., was See also:born, at See also:Waterford in 1851. He was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, and was called to the See also:bar at See also:Gray's See also:Inn in 1886, and subsequently to the Irish bar, though he never practised. He was a clerk in the See also:vote See also:office of the See also:House of See also:Commons before he entered See also:parliament in 1881 as member for New See also:Ross. From 1885 to 1891 he represented See also:North See also:Wexford. As party See also:whip he rendered See also:great service to the Irish members by his thorough grasp of the See also:procedure of the House. At the See also:time of the rupture of the Irish party consequent on the See also:Parnell scandals, Redmond was the most eloquent member of the minority who continued to recognize his leadership, and in 1891 he became the accredited See also:leader of the Parnellites. In 1900 the two Nationalist parties were amalgamated under his leadership. He contested See also:Cork unsuccessfully in 1891, but was elected for Waterford, where he was re-elected in 1906.

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