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Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, PC, JP, FRS (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture , President of the Local Government Board , Chief Secretary for Ireland , Secretary of State for the Colonies ...
He was a leading advocate of conscription for Ireland and a principal mover in the arrest in 1918 of Sinn Féin leaders on the basis of a supposed ‘German plot’. In the December 1918 general election Long was elected for the St George's division, Westminster, and was subsequently appointed first lord of the admiralty.
A branch of the Long family were Lords of the Manor of Chitterne from 1830 until World War 1. Walter Long (????-1867) first bought land and buildings in the village from the Methuen family. Walter’s son, Richard Penruddocke Long, subsequently inherited, as did his son, Walter Hume Long, in 1875.
Long, Walter Hume, 1854-1924, 1st Viscount Long of Wraxall, Wiltshire, politician. Physical description: 9.9 metres Physical condition: (27 boxes + 5 oversize items) Access conditions: There...
Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount Long, (13 July 1854 – 26 September 1924), was a British Unionist politician. In a political career spanning over 40 years, he held office as President of the Board of Agriculture, President of the Local Government Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the ...
LONG, WALTER HUME LONG, 1st Viscount (1854-), English statesman, born at Bath July 13 1854, was the eldest son of Richard Penruddocke Long, of Rood Ashton, Wilts., and Dolforgan, Montgomeryshire, and his wife, Charlotte, daughter of the Right Hon. W. W. Fitzwilliam Hume Dick.
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