Chief Secretary Research Articles

History and Politics: The Career of James Bryce

James Bryce, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, President of the Board of Trade, Chief Secretary for Ireland, British Ambassador at Washington, was a distinguished and respected late Victorian politician, not perhaps in the front rank. James Bryce, author of The Holy Roman Empire, The American Commonwealth, Studies in History and Jurisprudence and many other works, was a distinguished and respected historian and legal writer, not perhaps in the front rank. 'Too much history', Lewis Namier wrote to Winston Churchill in I934, 'is written by don-bred dons with no knowledge or understanding of the practical problems of statecraft.' 1 Other historians have bitterly complained that too much history is made by politicians with no knowledge or understanding of the pattern of history. James Bryce appears to satisfy both parties. Both historian and politician, he represents the ideal combination. Once ideal, perhaps, but hardly now. History, the school for statesmen, has lost its pristine confidence and turned in upon itself. Politicians, too, are anxious to ground whatever claims to intellectual distinction they may have in more 'relevant' disciplines. The cleavage is not complete, for men who continue to be both historians and politicians still grace the scene and prosper, at least in one of their chosen fields. Yet such are the pressures of professionalization that their dual role is as likely to breed disdain as excite admiration. Academic historians are not notably charitable towards the works of alien interlopers, particularly when the interlopers have larger sales. Equally, there is no better way to damn a politician with faint praise than to refer to him as a well-known author. 'Professionals' on both sides stand disconcerted by the evidence of many-sidedness, and that earlier concern with the interpenetration of history and politics is in danger of being lost. J. Namier, Lewis Namier (Oxford University Press I971), 230.

The Chief Secretary : Augustine Birrell in Ireland. By Leon Ó Broin. London : Chatto & Windus. Pp 234. 1969. £2.10.

The Chief Secretary : Augustine Birrell in Ireland. By Leon Ó Broin. London : Chatto & Windus. Pp 234. 1969. £2.10.

The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland. By <italic>Leon Ó Broin</italic>. ([Hamden, Conn.:] Archon Books. 1970. Pp. 232. $7.25.)

The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland. By Leon Ó Broin. ([Hamden, Conn.:] Archon Books. 1970. Pp. 232. $7.25.) Get access The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland. By Broin Leon Ó. ([Hamden, Conn.:] Archon Books. 1970. Pp. 232. $7.25.) Giovanni Costigan Giovanni Costigan University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 75, Issue 7, December 1970, Pages 2062–2063, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/75.7.2062-a Published: 01 December 1970

The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland

The Chief Secretary: Augustine Birrell in Ireland

BUREAUCRACY AND DISASTER

Australian Journal of Public AdministrationVolume 29, Issue 2 p. 165-188 BUREAUCRACY AND DISASTER II: Response to the 1967 Tasmanian Bushfires* J. M. Power, J. M. PowerSearch for more papers by this authorR. L. Wettenhall, R. L. Wettenhall †We wish to express our indebtedness to Mrs Geraldine Foley for valuable research assistance, especially in the compilation of the chronological appendix. As much of what follows is concerned with the somewhat labyrnthine (even if Lilliputian) Tasmanian public service, the reader is referred to R. L. Wettenhall, A Guide to Tas-manian Government Administrotion , Hobart, 1968, for an account of such exotic organizational arrangements as the Premier's and Chief Secretary's Department.Search for more papers by this author J. M. Power, J. M. PowerSearch for more papers by this authorR. L. Wettenhall, R. L. Wettenhall †We wish to express our indebtedness to Mrs Geraldine Foley for valuable research assistance, especially in the compilation of the chronological appendix. As much of what follows is concerned with the somewhat labyrnthine (even if Lilliputian) Tasmanian public service, the reader is referred to R. L. Wettenhall, A Guide to Tas-manian Government Administrotion , Hobart, 1968, for an account of such exotic organizational arrangements as the Premier's and Chief Secretary's Department.Search for more papers by this author First published: June 1970 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1970.tb00180.xCitations: 3 † *The first part of this article appeared in the December, 1969, number of this journal. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume29, Issue2June 1970Pages 165-188 RelatedInformation

Book Review: Handbook on Probation

Book Review: <b>Handbook on Probation</b>

Fenian documents in the State Paper Office

The state papers in the State Paper Office, Dublin Castle, are the documents which were received or created in the office of the chief secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland and in a small number of related offices or departments. The departments or related offices were: the convict department, with records for 1778–1924; the privy council department, with records for 1800–1922; the chief crown solicitor’s department, with records for 1848–1922; the police and crime department, with records for 1848–1920; and the general prisons board, with records for 1836–1928.

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:R. I. Downing, H. W. Arndt, A. H. Boxer, and R. L. Mathews. Taxation in Australia–Agenda for Reform.Marian Gough, Helen Hughes, B. J. McFarlane and G. R. Palmer.Walter Hartwell Bennett, American Theories of Federalism.G. D. McColl. The Australian Balance of Payments. A Study in Post War Developments.Sir John Winifrith. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.York Willbern. The Withering Away of the City. New Parliament Buildings, Sydney–Reference Monograph No. 3. Survey of Child Care in Victoria, 1962–1964: A report by the Committee appointed by the Chief Secretary of Victoria.

Book Reviews : Survey of Child Care in Victoria, 1962-64: A Report by the Committee appointed by the Chief Secretary of Victoria, Melbourne, Government Printer, 1965. pp. 141

Book Reviews : Survey of Child Care in Victoria, 1962-64: A Report by the Committee appointed by the Chief Secretary of Victoria, Melbourne, Government Printer, 1965. pp. 141

BOOK REVIEWS

Journal of Paediatrics and Child HealthVolume 1, Issue 3 p. 178-179 BOOK REVIEWS First published: September 1965 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1754.1965.tb02604.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Book reviewed in this article: SURVEY OF CHILD CARE IN VICTORIA— 1960–64. A Report of the Committee appointed by the Chief Secretary of Victoria, Hon. A. G. Rylah, M.L.A. CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS OF THE RECTUM, ANUS AND GENITO-URINARY TRACTS. By F. Douglas Stephens, D.S.O., M.S. ESSENTIALS OF PAEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY. A. W. Venables RECENT ADVANCES IN PAEDIATRICS, 3rd ed. By Douglas Gairdner Volume1, Issue3September 1965Pages 178-179 RelatedInformation

XIV. The Scientific Investigation of the Potato Blight in 1845–6

The assessment of the contribution of Garrett Hugh FitzGerald to the search for an antidote to potato blight, as put forward by Mr T. P. O’Neill in his article on the scientific investigation of the potato failure of 1845—6, needs to be revised, if only to do justice to Robert Kane.FitzGerald wrote to a local newspaper on 9 March 1846, suggesting, as a result of experiments he had made in search of a cure for potato blight, that seed potatoes should be steeped before planting in a solution of bluestone (copper sulphate). In February and March of the same year he wrote two letters on the subject to the chief secretary for Ireland. These letters were forwarded for consideration to the relief commission, of which Robert Kane was the scientific member.

Sir Robert Peel’s ‘Select Irish library’

While in Ireland as chief secretary (1812–18) Sir Robert Peel became acquainted with William Shaw Mason, the Irish topographer and statistician who was remembrancer or receiver of the first-fruits or twentieth parts in Ireland and secretary to the commissioners for public records. Impressed with Mason's work and abilities, Peel encouraged him to prepare a major statistical survey of Ireland, along the lines of Sir John Sinclair's famous survey of Scotland; and the result was the three-volume work entitled A statistical account, or parochial survey of Ireland, drawn up from the communications of the clergy (the three volumes were published in 1814, 1816, and 1819 respectively), which is still a valuable record of the period. In 1819 Mason compiled a Survep, valuation, and census of the barony of Portnehinch in Queen's County. Published in 1821, this work was submitted to George IV during the royal visit to Ireland in that year ‘as a model for a statistical survey of the whole country’.

Late Autumn Food of the Sharp-Tailed Grouse in Western Nebraska

This article treats of the food of the Sharp-tailed Grouse in western Nebraska during late autumn, following a season of severe drought. Early in November, 1934, an illegal shipment of 56 game birds was seized by authorities at Truckee, California. It is believed that these birds had been shot late in October, probably in the vicinity of Broadwater, Morrill County, Nebraska. On December 22, 1934, these birds were delivered to the Department of Entomology of the College of Agriculture, University of Nebraska, by Frank B. O'Connell, Chief Conservation Officer and Secretary of the Game, Forestation, and Parks Commission of Nebraska, for purposes of dissection and analysis of their food. The shipment included 29 Sharp-tailed Grouse (Pedioecetes phasianellus jamesi), many of them birds of the year, analyses of which are here reported upon. All of these birds were frozen solidly when delivered. They were allowed to thaw and relax, when the crops and gizzards were dissected out by Watson E. Beed, who preserved their contents in separately numbered vials of 70 per cent alcohol. In analyzing the contents of the crops and gizzards, the procedure was as follows: All plant leaves were separated from the saturated mixture in the 70 per cent alcohol, identified in that state if possible, and then set aside to dry. The alcohol was poured off from the remainder of the mixture, and this residue also dried. The dry contents of each crop and gizzard were then separated into their constituent elements or foods, the weights of each of which were taken separately, to 0.001 gram. Broadwater, Morrill County, where,

” Natives” in Western Australia

UNDER the provisions of an Aborigines Bill introduced in the Legislative Council of Western Australia on September 23, it is now proposed that all people of colour in Western Australia, whether full-blooded or of mixed origin, shall no longer be known as “aborigines”, “half-castes”, or “near whites”, but shall be termed “natives”. While this proposal no doubt removes what has been felt in certain circumstances to be a stigma, it perpetuates and gives official approval to a troublesome ambiguity. The Bill was introduced on behalf of the Western Australian Government by the Chief Secretary, Mr. W. H. Kitson (The Times, Sept. 24). As it stands, the proposals deal with certain matters affecting the natives to which attention was directed recently in the drastic report of a commission of inquiry criticizing native conditions and the organization and functioning of the Western Australian Government's provision for the protection of the aborigines (see NATUBB, 135, 798). A better system of control of the natives is to be introduced; and a serious attempt is to be made to grapple with the grave problem of the conditions affecting native mothers and their children; while the employment of young females will be regulated to prevent exploitation by their employers. Other matters which come under view or revision are the terms of native tenure of property and land, the prohibition of the sale of intoxicants to natives, and the delicate question of the curtailment of tribal custom and practices which are calculated to cause bodily injury or to militate against the Department's work of amelioration”. Finally, and in view of past history, perhaps most important of all, native courts are to be established for the trial of offences committed by one native against another. From the brief summary which so far has been transmitted by cable, it would appear that the Government is making a determined effort to remedy the graver defects of its system to which attention has been directed, and that in certain respects the practice of the State will be brought into line with that of the Federal Government in its relations with the aborigines of the Northern Territory.

Anthropology in Action. An experiment in the Iringa District of the Iringa Province, Tanganyika Territory. By G. Gordon Brown, M.A., Ph.D., and A. McD. Bruce Hutt, B.A. (Oxon.), with an Introduction by P. E. Mitchell, C.M.G., M.C., Chief Secretary, Tanganyika Territory. Pp. xviii + 272, with one map and four appendices. Published for the International Institute of African Languages and

Anthropology in Action. An experiment in the Iringa District of the Iringa Province, Tanganyika Territory. By G. Gordon Brown, M.A., Ph.D., and A. McD. Bruce Hutt, B.A. (Oxon.), with an Introduction by P. E. Mitchell, C.M.G., M.C., Chief Secretary, Tanganyika Territory. Pp. xviii + 272, with one map and four appendices. Published for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by the Oxford University Press, London. 1935. 7s. 6d. net. - Volume 8 Issue 3

History of Nigeria. By A. C. Burns, C.M.G., Deputy Chief Secretary to the Government of Nigeria. George Allen &amp; Unwin Ltd.1929. 15s.

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Dr. J. C. Melvill

DR. JAMES COSMO MELVILL, of Meole Brace Hall, Shrewsbury, well known as a conchologist and botanist, who died on Nov. 4, was born in London on July 1, 1845, and was the son of James Cosmo Melvill, Under-Secretary of State for India, and the grandson of Sir James Cosmo Melvill, F.R.S., chief secretary of the East India Company. He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the business of his uncle, Edward Hardcastle, travelling in North America, where he had opportunities for studying natural history and making collections. He later joined the firm of Messrs. G. and R. Dewhurst, of Manchester and Preston, serving as a director for many years.

China Faces the Modern World

Essay| September 01 1924 China Faces the Modern World Liang Shih-Yi Liang Shih-Yi Former Premier of the Chinese Republic. Lian Shih-yi has held many important positions under the Chinese Government, as will be seen from the following: Secretary to Tang Shao-yi on the occasion of his mission to India, in 1906; Chief of Department of Board of Communications, 1907: Director of Railways in Board of Communications, 1907; Assistant Director of Chino T’ung Bank, 1907; Senior Secretary of Board of Communications, July, 1909; Acting Vice Minister of Communications, November. 1911; Acting Director of Imperial Chinese Posts, December, 1911; Acting Minister of Communications, January to March, 1912: Chief Secretary in the President s office after the abdication of the Manchus (April, 1912): Acting Vice Minister of Finance, May to September, 1911: member of the Tsanchengyuan (Council of State), Alinister of the Shuiwuchu: Director General of the Customs Administration. 1915; Director General of tile Bureau of Taves, wifi: Speaker of the Senate. Mav to October, 1918; Premier of China, resigned in 1992. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1924) 20 (6): 950–955. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1924.20.6.950 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Liang Shih-Yi; China Faces the Modern World. Current History 1 September 1924; 20 (6): 950–955. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1924.20.6.950 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCurrent History Search This content is only available via PDF. © 1924 by The Regents of the University of California1924 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

University and Educational Intelligence

ABERDEEN.—The summer graduation ceremony of the University was held on.July 14 in the Mitchell Hall of Marischal College. Degrees to the number of 4 honorary and 145 ordinary were conferred by his Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, Chancellor of the University. Sir George Carmichael, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and Prof. W. M. Bayliss received the Doctorate of Laws.

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

THE editor of the Cambridge series of Provincial Geographies of India made a happy selection when he entrusted the Panjab to Sir James Douie, who during thirty-five years' work as a member of the Indian Civil Service has held the posts of Chief Secretary, Financial Commissioner, and Officiating Lieutenant-Governor; what he does not know of the Province in which he served is not worth knowing. In a series of chapters packed with information he discusses the physiography, ethnology, sociology, history, archaeology, and administration of an area of one quarter of a million square miles, comparable in extent, as well as in other respects, with Austria-Hungary. To summarise this amount of information within a limited space naturally prevents the elaboration of detail. The book, in fact, is an epitome of the information contained in the Imperial and Provincial Gazetteers, and in numberless other official publications.