| 词条 | William Shaw (Irish politician) |
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William Shaw (4 May 1823 – 19 September 1895) was an Irish Protestant nationalist politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and one of the founders of the Irish home rule movement. Born in Moy, County Tyrone, Shaw was connected with the Young Ireland movement, and studied at Trinity College, Dublin without taking a degree. He then studied theology at Highbury College in Middlesex. He served as a Minister at an independent church in Cork from 1846 to 1850, then married and left his post to move into business.[1] Shaw stood as a Liberal Party candidate in Bandon, at the 1865 by-election and subsequent general election, but was defeated on both occasions. He stood in the same seat at the 1868 general election, and was elected as an independent Liberal. While generally supportive of William Ewart Gladstone, he became active in the new Home Government Association, and in 1873, he presided over the convention held to found its successor, the Home Rule League.[1] At the 1874 general election, Shaw was elected unopposed for County Cork, and with Mitchell Henry, often deputised for Home Rule Party leader Isaac Butt. He remained loyal to Butt, and when Butt died in 1879, Shaw was selected as the new party chairman.[1] Shaw held his seat at the 1880 general election, but lost an election for the party chairmanship, to Charles Stewart Parnell. Parnell distanced the Home Rule League from the Liberal Party, but Shaw continued to sit on the Liberal benches in the House of Commons, and was appointed to the Bessborough Commission to examine Irish land tenure. Shaw opposed the Irish Land League, formally left the Irish party group in early 1881, and resigned from the moribund Home Rule League in December.[1] Shaw devoted increasing amounts of his time to his chairmanship of the Munster Bank, and did not stand for Parliament at the 1885 general election. Later in the year, the Munster Bank collapsed, and Shaw was declared personally bankrupt. He moved to London and worked with various newspapers in the last years of his life.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 "Shaw, William", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography External links
| title = Member of Parliament for Bandon | years = 1868–1874 | before = Henry Boyle Bernard | after = Alexander Swanston }}{{s-bef | before = McCarthy Downing and Arthur Smith-Barry }}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for County Cork | with = McCarthy Downing, to 1879; | with2 = David la Touche Colthurst, from 1879 | years = 1874–1885 }}{{s-non | reason = Constituency abolished }}{{s-end}}{{Nationalist Party leaders}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, William}} 11 : 1823 births|1895 deaths|Irish Protestants|Home Rule League MPs|Irish Liberal Party MPs|Protestant Irish nationalists|Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Cork constituencies (1801–1922)|UK MPs 1868–74|UK MPs 1874–80|UK MPs 1880–85|Politicians from County Tyrone |
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