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Ronald McNeill
1861–1934
A Conservative politician, editor, and writer, he moved between journalism, government, and public debate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is especially remembered for writing about Ulster unionism and for his long career in British politics.
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Ulster's Stand For Union
by Ronald McNeill
About the author
Born in 1861, Ronald McNeill was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, and later trained as a barrister. Before and alongside his political life, he worked in publishing and journalism, including as editor of the St James's Gazette and as an assistant editor on the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
McNeill sat in the House of Commons as a Conservative MP and went on to hold several government posts, including work connected with foreign affairs and the Treasury. In 1927 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Cushendun, linking his title to County Antrim, where his family had deep roots.
As a writer, he is best known to many readers for Ulster's Stand for Union, a book shaped by his close involvement with the political issues it describes. That combination of participant, commentator, and public figure gives his work a direct, firsthand quality that still makes it interesting today.