Edward Carson
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson,
PC,
PC (Ire),
KC (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as
Sir Edward Carson, was an
Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, who was the
Attorney General and
Solicitor General for
England,
Wales and
Ireland as well as the
First Lord of the Admiralty for the
British Royal Navy. From 1905 Carson was both the
Irish Unionist Alliance MP for the
Dublin University constituency and leader of the
Ulster Unionist Council in
Belfast. In 1915, he entered the war cabinet of
H. H. Asquith as
Attorney-General. Carson was defeated in his ambition to maintain
Ireland as a whole in union with
Great Britain. His leadership, however, was celebrated by some for securing a continued place in the
United Kingdom for the six north-eastern counties, albeit under a devolved
Parliament of Northern Ireland that neither he nor his fellow unionists had sought. He is also remembered for his open ended cross examination of
Oscar Wilde in a legal action that led to plaintiff Wilde being prosecuted, gaoled and ruined. Carson unsuccessfully attempted to intercede for Wilde after the case.
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