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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2016
Sir Horace Plunkett in and out of Downing Street all day. The situation in the Convention is most critical. The question turns on whether or not the proposed Irish Parliament is to control Customs. The Southern Unionists are in agreement with the Nationalists except on this point. If Customs are reserved to Impl. Parliament the S. Unionists will support a H R Constitution on the lines of Lord Midleton's resolution now before the Convention. The Nationalists while they desire that Customs should belong to the Irish Parliament are prepared to waive the claim if they hear from the War Cabinet that in the event of their making this concession the War Cabinet will pledge themselves definitely to give effect immediately by legislation to the ‘Midleton Compromise’. The fateful Division is to be taken in the Convention on Thursday or Friday next. Sir Horace has come over in the hope of securing the desired Cabinet pledge.
1 Richard James Herbert Shaw (1885–1946): served in the army during the First World War; Assistant Secretary to the Irish Convention 1917; later worked for The Times.
2 Robert Waugh: of the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners; representative of the building trades on the Irish Convention.
3 Patrick Joseph O'Donnell (1856–1927): Roman Catholic Bishop of Raphoe 1888–1922; coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh 1922–1924; Cardinal 1925.
4 Francis Alphonsus Bourne (1861–1935): Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster 1903–1935; Cardinal 1911.
5 Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (1841–1929): Prime Minister of France 1906–1909, 1917–1920.
6 Frederick Barton Maurice (1871–1951): army officer; Director of Military Operations at the War Office 1915–1918; knighted 1918.
7 This is one of the longest entries in the diary, and for reasons of space it is not possible to include all of it. CBH appears to have considered it to be of some sensitivity, as he wrote it in a volume separate from that which contained the other entries for 1918.
8 Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950): General in the Boer Army during the Second Boer War; Lieutenant-General in the British Army during the First World War; member of the British War Cabinet 1917–1918; Prime Minister of South Africa 1919–1924, 1939–1948; British Field Marshal 1941.
9 John Field Beale (c.1874–1935): businessman and wartime civil servant; knighted 1918.
10 James Bryce (1838–1922): Regius Professor of Civil law at Oxford University 1870–1893; author of The American Commonwealth (London: Macmillan, 1888); Lib. candidate for Wick Burghs 1874; Lib. MP for Tower Hamlets 1880–1885; Aberdeen South 1885–1907; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1892–1894; President of the Board of Trade 1894–1895; Chief Secretary for Ireland 1905–1907; Ambassador to the United States 1907–1913; cr. Viscount Bryce 1914.
11 William Sowden Sims (1858–1936): commander of US naval forces operating in European waters during America's participation in the First World War.
12 John Biddle (1859–1936): commanded the US army forces in Great Britain 1918–1919.
13 Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964): organised famine relief in Europe during and after the First World War; US President 1929–1933.
14 Max Pemberton (1863–1950): journalist and author; director of Northcliffe Newspapers, knighted 1928.
15 Pemberton subsequently abandoned the project, but revived it after Northcliffe's death: see Pemberton, Max, Lord Northcliffe: A Memoir (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1922)Google Scholar.
16 Robert Laird Borden (1854–1937): Prime Minister of Canada 1911–1920; knighted 1914.
17 Joseph George Ward (1856–1930): Prime Minister of New Zealand 1906–1912, 1928–1930, cr. baronet 1911. CBH was mistaken: Ward was Deputy Prime Minister rather than Prime Minister at the time of this entry.
18 Joseph Paton Maclay (1857–1951): ship-owner; Minister of Shipping 1916–1921; cr. baronet 1914; cr. Baron Maclay 1922.
19 Andrew Weir (1865–1955): shipowner; Surveyor-General of Supply 1917–1919; Minister of Munitions 1919–1921; cr. Baron Inverforth 1919.
20 Charles Dillingham (c.1860–1925): hat manufacturer; Mayor of Luton 1917–1918.
21 Leslie Orme Wilson (1876–1955): army officer; Con. candidate for Poplar Jan. 1910; Reading Dec. 1910; Con. MP for Reading 1913–1922; Con. candidate for St. George's, Westminster 1922; Con. MP for South Portsmouth 1922–1923; Parliamentary Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet 1918–1919; Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping 1919–1921; Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Unionist Chief Whip 1921–1922; Government Chief Whip 1922–1923; Governor of Bombay 1923–1928; Governor of Queensland 1932–1946; knighted 1923.
22 Campbell Arthur Stuart (1885–1972): born in Canada; military secretary to Northcliffe's 1917 mission to America; became a key figure in Northcliffe's newspaper empire; knighted 1918.
23 Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry (1861–1948): Prince Regnant of Bulgaria 1887–1908; proclaimed himself Tsar and ruled as Ferdinand I until his abdication in 1918.
24 Boris III ‘The Unifier’ (1894–1943). Although his abdication was reported in The Times of 4 November 1918, he in fact reigned until his death.
25 James Rowlands (d. 1920 at age 69): Lib. MP for East Finsbury 1886–1895; Lib. (then Coalition Lib) MP for Dartford 1906–1910, 1910–1920.
26 George Welsh Currie (1870–1950): Unionist MP for Leith 1914–1918; later joined the Labour Party.
27 Charles Thomas-Stanford (1858–1932): Unionist MP for Brighton 1914–1922; cr. baronet 1929.
28 Hugh Cumberland (d. 1950 at age 92): auctioneer, surveyor, and Justice of the Peace.
29 Sidney Costantino Sonnino (1847–1922): Prime Minister of Italy 1906, 1909–1910; Foreign Minister 1914–1919.
30 Harry Arnold (b. c.1864): timber merchant; Mayor of Luton 1920–1921; Lib. candidate for Luton 1922.
31 Willet Ball (b. c.1874): journalist; editor of Railway Review 1917–1922; Lab. candidate for Luton 1922 and 1923.
32 Unidentified.
33 Unidentified.
34 Frank Henry Parsons (b. c.1883): worked for the Luton Liberal Association.
35 Possibly E.W. Roper.
36 Henry Impey (b. c.1865): Mayor of Luton 1918–1919.
37 Election result: Cecil Harmsworth (Coalition Liberal) 15,501; Willet Ball (Labour) 5,964. Coalition majority 7,557.