RARE “League Of Nations\" Ronald McNeill Hand Written Letter Dated 1929 For Sale

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RARE “League Of Nations\" Ronald McNeill Hand Written Letter Dated 1929:
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Up for sale "1st Baron Cushendun" Ronald McNeill Hand Written Letter Dated 1929.

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Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun PC (30

April 1861 – 12 October 1934) was a was born in Ulster. He was the son of Edmund

McNeill DL, JP and Sheriff of

County Antrim, and his wife Mary (née Miller). He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford,

graduating in 1886. He was called to the bar in 1888, and started to work as editor of The St James's Gazette (1900–04)

as well as assistant editor of the Encyclopædia contested the seats South (1907 and

Jan 1910), McNeill was elected as Unionist Member of

Parliament for of Kent in

1911. Seven years later he became representative for Canterbury,

and in 1922 was appointed Under-Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs, a post he held, with a short interval

for the first Labour Government of 1924,

until 1925. After serving as Financial

Secretary to the Treasury for two years, McNeill was made Chancellor

of the Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the cabinet in 1927.

The same year he was also sworn of the Privy

Council and raised to the peerage as Baron of Antrim.[2] Acting Foreign Secretary in 1928 and twice chief British

representative to the League of Nations, Lord Cushendun signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact in

August that year. He retired from office in 1929. From 1910 McNeill resided at

Glenmona House in Cushendun, the coastal village in County Antrim from which he later took his title. He

was burnt

out of the house in 1922, having a replacement designed by Clough Williams-Ellis.[3] The village also contains

properties by Williams-Ellis built in memory of his Cornish wife, Maud, who died in 1925. In 1884 Lord

Cushendun married Elizabeth Maud Bolitho (brother of William Bolitho),

a Cornishwoman and Christian Scientist. They

had three daughters: Esther Rose, Loveday Violet, and Mary Morvenna Bolitho

(who married Major Philip Le Grand Gribble, military correspondent and

memoirist). After Elizabeth's death in 1925 he married Catherine Sydney Louisa

Margesson in 1930. She survived him, dying in 1939. Lord Cushendun died in

Cushendun in October 1934, aged 73, when the barony became extinct. 

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