- Patrick Hannon
Sir Patrick Joseph Henry Hannon FRGS FRSA (
1874 -10 January 1963 ) was anAnglo-Irish Conservative Partypolitician ,industrialist andagriculturalist . He served asMember of Parliament for Birmingham Moseley from 1921 to 1950 and was active in theBritish Commonwealth Union .Education in agriculture
Hannon was the eldest son of Matthew Hannon of
Kilfree and Mary, daughter of Thomas Wynne ofCastlebar . He was educated at theRoyal College of Science andRoyal University of Ireland . Hannon was actively involved in Irishagriculture from 1896 to 1904, in particular as an officer of theIrish Agricultural Organisation Society . From 1901 to 1904 Hannon was Director of theIrish Agricultural Wholesale Society and reported on agriculture worldwide. From 1902 to 1907 he visited theU.S. andCanada on behalf of theIrish Industrial Movement . From 1907 to 1909 he was Director of Agricultural Organisation to the government ofCape Colony and aJustice of the Peace .Politics
Hannon contested Bristol East in 1910 as a Unionist. In the period 1910 to 1914 he was an officer of the
Tariff Reform League . He was first elected as aCoalition Conservative in abyelection on March 4, 1921 and served until theUnited Kingdom general election, 1950 . He was President ofAston Villa F.C. .Bibliography
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