Background
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett was third son of Edward, 16th baron Dunsany, was born on the 24th of October 1854.
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett was third son of Edward, 16th baron Dunsany, was born on the 24th of October 1854.
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett was educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford, of which he became an honorary fellow in 1909.
Continuing, however, his policy of conciliation, Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett suggested in August 1895 that a few prominent persons of various political opinions should meet to discuss and frame a scheme of practical legislation.
He was created K. C. V. O. in 1903.
On the accession of the Liberal party to power in 1906, Sir Horace Plunkett was requested by Mr Bryce, the new chief secretary, to remain at the head of the department he had created.
Plunkett was a lifelong advocate of agricultural co-operation.
Reluctantly converted to Home Rule, he urged Ulster not to stay out.
When it did, he became in 1922 a member of the Senate of the Irish Free State, but returned to England after his house had been burned down in 1923.
At first Plunkett resolved to hold himself aloof from party politics, and he set himself to bring together men of all political views for the promotion of the material prosperity of the Irish people.
But already in 1892 he had felt compelled to abandon his non-political attitude, and he entered parliament as Unionist member for south Dublin.
Senate of the Irish Free State, Congested Districts Board
