Background
He was the son of Hugh Lardner, Swan Park, Monaghan.
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James Lardner
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He was educated at a Christian Brothers" school, at Street Macarten’s College, Monaghan, and at Clongowes Wood College, Company
Career
He became a Knights of Columbus (King’s Counsel) in 1921 and a bencher of King’s Inns in 1924. Lardner was Chief Ranger of the Irish National Foresters and a director of the Dublin South Eastern Railway Company
Lardner was elected unopposed for North Monaghan in a by-election in June 1907, although his nomination as the Nationalist candidate had been opposed by the powerful Joseph Devlin, whose Ancient Order of Hibernians was in competition with the Irish National Foresters. He did not contest the general election of 1918.
Maume (1999, pp 95, 233) states that Lardner had Healyite sympathies, but does not cite evidence.
Barrington (1987, pp 19–20) says that he was one of the Nationalist MPs who campaigned for legislation to improve Ireland’s economic and social conditions.
Achievements
Membership
28th United Kingdom Parliament. 30th United Kingdom Parliament]
He became a solicitor in 1900 and a barrister in 1913, being a member of both King"s Inns, Dublin, and Gray’s Inn, London. With J. J. Clancy he negotiated the Irish clauses of the National Insurance Acting 1911 with the Treasury, and he was a member of the government committee appointed in 1913 to consider the extension of medical benefit to Ireland under the 1911 Acting.
