1919, and Stores Purchase Committee, 1920; Financial Adviser to Railway Board, 1920; Director-General of Stores, India Office, from 1921; son of Edward Ryan, of Ronayn's Court, Douglas, Co. Cork; b. 1879; m. 1909, Edith Mary Stanley. Address: Store Department, India Office, Belvedere Road, Lambeth, London.
RYAN, William Patrick (Liam P. O Riain), Night Editor, "The Daily Herald"; b. Co. Tipperary. Associated successively with "Catholic Times," "Sun" and "Weekly Sun" (under T. P. O'Connor), "Morning Leader," and "Daily Chronicle"; returned to Ireland to edit the "Irish Peasant," 1905; conducted a similar organ, "The Peasant," subsequently the "Irish Nation," in Dublin, 1907-10. Pubns.: Starlight Through the Thatch, a story of Irish rural life; Sidheoga Ag Obair (new Irish fairy-tales: Oireachtas prize volume); Plays for the People (two in Irish, one in English); The Plough and the Cross (a novel based on the new Irish movements and ideas); Caoimhin O'Cearnaigh (a novel in Irish on similar ground); The Pope's Green Island; Daisy Dailey, or the Fairy Gold of Fleet Street; The Celt and the Cosmos; Inghean Mhanannain (an Irish epic ballad); The Irish Labour Movement. Address: c/o "The Daily Herald," 2 Carmelite Street, E.C. Club: Gaelic League of London.
RYCE, George, B.A. (R.U.I.), 1851; Royal Commissioners Research Scholar in Chemistry, 1892; A.R.C.S. (Lond.) Chemistry and Agriculture; first class diploma in Agriculture, R.A.S.E.; Hon. Sec. Companions of St. Patrick; J.P. for City of Dublin; b. 19th April, 1869. Clubs: Leinster Club, and Milltown Golf Club.
RYE, John Baillie Tonson, D.L., J.P. Co. Cork; second and only surviving son of late Capt. Richard Tonson Rye, D.L., J.P., of Ryecourt, Co. Cork; b. 1846; m. 1876, Madeline Charlotte, third dau. of Sir Thos. Dancer, 6th Bart. Res.: Ryecourt, Crookstown, Co. Cork.
RYLE, Maurice Patrick, journalist; Editor "Kerry People"; an ex-Chairman of the Irish Association District of the Institute of Journalists. Pubns.: The Kingdom of Kerry: a volume of historical and descriptive sketches; also some pamphlets on local subjects. Res.: Tralee, Co. Kerry.
SADLIER, Thomas Ulick, M.A., M.R.I.A., F.R.S.A.I., Registrar of the Office of Arms; Hon. Editor Kildare Journal of Archaeology; Hon. Treasurer Irish Memorials Association; Hon. Secretary Irish Book-place Club. Educ.: Rossall; Trinity College, Dublin; Irish Bar, 1906, joined Leinster Circuit; Legal Assessor at Dublin University Election. Acted as Editor of Georgian Society's Publications, 1911-13; Member of Committee of the R.S.A.I., 1921; b. 1882; third son of Rev. Francis Sadlier, M.A., and Philippa, sister of Ulick Ralph Burke, Spanish historian. Pubns.: Memoir of the Rt. Hon. Sir Ralph Sadlier, Knt., Banneret, 1907; Georgian Mansions in Ireland (in collaboration with P. L. Dickinson), 1915; An Irish Peer on the Continent, 1920; wrote almost the whole of the letterpress in Vols. III., IV., and V. of the Georgian Society; also articles in Hitchcock's Midland Septs and the Pale, Athenæum, Notes and Queries, "Irish Times," Victoria County History of Herts, Last Herts Archaeological Journal, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Galway Archæological Journal, Waterford Archaeological Journal, etc. Recns.: walking; looking at prints and paintings. Res.: 51 Lansdowne Road, Dublin. Club: Friendly Brothers', Dublin.
SAMPSON, Major Francis Cornelius, D.S.O. (1918), M.B., B.Ch. (T.C.D.), R.A.M.C. Educ.: Clongowes; Catholic University, Dublin; served European War, 1914-19 (despatches twice, D.S.O. and bar, Bt. Major); Lieut.-Col. 91st Field Ambulance, 32nd Division; son of Francis Cornelius Sampson, M.D., of Moynoe House. Scariff, Co. Clare: b. 1879; m. 1919, Mary D. Woodhouse, R.R.C., Q.A.I.M.N.S., of Goodwood, Egerton Park, Rock Ferry, Cheshire. Res.: Moynoe House, Scariff, Co. Clare.
SAMPSON, Col. George Ellis, D.S.O. (1914), late Major Royal Inniskilling Fus.; Lieut.-Col. R.E. for Army Signal Service; served in the Great War of 1914-19; son of late Capt. George Dennis Sampson, of Scariff, Co. Clare; b. 1887; m. 1919, Freda Marjory Paterson, of Shahmar, Foxgrove Road. Beckenham. Res.: Moynoe Lodge, Scariff, Co. Clare.
SAMUELS, The Right Hon. Arthur Warren, P.C. (1918); Barrister King's Inns, 1887; Q.C., 1894; called to English Bar, 1896; Bencher King's Inns; Bencher of Gray's Inn, 1919; a Justice of the King's Bench Division, High Court of Justice, Ireland, from July 1919: Attorney-General for Ireland, 1918-19; Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1917-18; Permanent Counsel and Crown Prosecutor for G.P.O., Ireland, 1900-17; M.P. for Dublin University, 1917-19; President of the Social and Statistical Society for Ireland, 1906-08: Chancellor of Diocese of Armagh and of United Dioceses of Down, Connor and Dromore and of the United Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe. Pubns.: pamphlets on Irish Financial Questions: The Expenditure Account, The Financial Report, What it Finds; The Fiscal Question; Features of Recent Irish Finance; Home Rule: What is It?, 1910; Home Rule Finance, 1912; articles on Private Bill Procedure and Devolution, and against
