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MACDERMOTT, John Clarke (Baron MacDermott) (1896-1979)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA MacDermott

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: MACDERMOTT, John Clarke (Baron MacDermott) (1896-1979)

Date(s): 1979

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s):

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1896; educated at Campbell College, Belfast and Queen's University of Belfast; served in World War One with Machine Gun Corps in France, Belgium and Germany; called to Irish Bar, 1921; Lecturer in Jurisprudence, Queen's University of Belfast, 1931-1935; appointed to determine industrial assurance disputes in Northern Ireland, 1929-1938; King's Counsel (Northern Ireland), 1936; MP (Unionist), Queen's University of Belfast, Parliament of Northern Ireland, 1938-1944; Governor, Campbell College, 1934-1959; Chairman, Joint Select Committee on Road and Rail Transport in Northern Ireland, 1939; Minister of Public Security for Northern Ireland, 1940-1941; Attorney-General, 1941-1944; Judge, High Court of Justice, Northern Ireland, 1944-1947; a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, 1947-1951; Chairman, National Arbitration Tribunal, Northern Ireland, 1944-1946; Pro-Chancellor, Queen's University of Belfast, 1951-1969; Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, 1951-1971; died in 1979.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Photocopies of extracts from MacDermott's autobiography, 'An enriching life', privately printed in 1979, primarily concerning the death of his brother in France, Jan 1916, MacDermott's work in shell shop at Harland and Wolff Ltd, 1916, his experience of the Easter Rising, Dublin, Apr 1916, his military training in Belfast and the UK, 1916-1917, his service in France, Belgium and Germany, including the Battle of the Lys, Apr 1918, and the second Battle of the Marne, Jul-Aug 1918, his legal training, 1919-1921, and his reading of FM Sir Henry Wilson...his life and diaries by Sir Charles Edward Callwell (Cassell and Co, London, 1927) and Revolt in the Desert by Thomas Edward Lawrence (later Shaw) (Jonathon Cape, London, 1927) and also including a tribute by to MacDermott Lord Robert Lynd Erskine Lowry, Baron Lowry, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide entry on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and published in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Copies made by the Centre in 1986 from originals lent by Professor Kahrl.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Date of compilation: Sep 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Autobiographies | Prose | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Easter Rising Ireland (1916) | Revolutionary movements | Political movements
Legal education | Vocational education
Nationalism | Political doctrines
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)

Personal names
Lowry | Robert Lynd Erskine | b 1919 | 1st Baron Lowry | judge x Lowry | 1st Baron
MacDermott | John Clarke | 1896-1979 | Baron MacDermott | lawyer

Corporate names
Harland and Wolff Ltd | shipbuilders

Places
Belfast | Northern Ireland | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Belgium | Western Europe | Europe
Dublin | Ireland | Western Europe | Europe
Germany | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Lys, river | Western Europe | Europe
Marne, river | France | Western Europe | Europe