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Obiter Dicta
Augustine Birrell (1884)
Published by Charles Scribner's
Son, New York, 1888
'An obiter dictum,
in the language of the law, is a gratuitous opinion, an individual
impertinence, which,
whether it be wise or foolish, right or wrong, bindeth none—not
even the lips that utter it.'
The Right Honourable Augustine Birrell
was an English politician, barrister, academic and author
He was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916, resigning
in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising.
Birrell was the son of a Baptist
minister. He was educated at Amersham Hall school and at Trinity
Hall,
Cambridge where he was made an Honorary Fellow in 1879. He started
work in a solicitor's office in Liverpool but was called to the
Bar in 1875, becoming a QC in 1893.
In 1888 he married Eleanor Tennyson,
daughter of the poet Frederick Locker-Lampson and widow of Lionel
Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
They had two sons, one of whom, Frankie (1889–1935) was later
a journalist and critic and associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
From 1896 to 1899 he was Professor
of Comparative Law at University College, London. President of
the Board of Education, 1905-7; won appreciation by his conduct
of the 'Education Bill.'
He possessed a curious type of humour which found expression in
sayings known in the House of Commons and the Press as 'Birrellisms.'
A noted Liberal speaker on political platforms.
He retired from political life in
1916. Lived at Elm Park Road, Chelsea, and devoted himself to
literary work.
Essayist and critic; distinguished
as a writer by the winning and informal quality of his style.
Author, Obiter Dicta; Res Judicatae;
Men, Women and Books; Life of Charlotte Brontë; Sir Frank
Lockwood, etc.
ublished an edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson; also Browning's
Poems, etc.
(Burke, Knightage; The Times, Nov. 21, 1933.)
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