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THOM'S IRISH WHO'S WHO
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Oculist to the Claremont Institute and St. Joseph's Asylum. Educ.: Winchester; Trinity College, Dublin; Zurich; Vienna, High Sheriff of Co. Tyrone, 1911; Ex-Pres. of the Irish Medical Association; Hon. Surgeon Oculist to Earls Cadogan and Dudley, Lords Lieut, of Ireland, 1895-1905; Hon. Secretary Dublin Branch of National Service League from foundation till it closed down in 1916. Pubns.: Papers in the various Ophthalmological Journals; son of Rev. William Story, of Corick, Clogher, Co. Tyrone, and Sara Bernard, dau. of John Black, of Sligo; m. 1892, Blanche Christabel, dau. of Rev. J. Hallowell, and has issue two daus. Res.: 6 Merrion Square, Dublin; Corick, Clogher, Co. Tyrone. Clubs: University, Dublin; Tyrone County, Omagh.

STORY, Lieut.-Col. Robert, J.P. Co. Cavan; joined 60th King's Royal Rifles, 12th Nov., 1873: served with the 8th Bengal Cavalry in Afghan War, 1880 (medal); joined 7th Batt. King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1884: retired as Major and Hon. Lieut.-Col., 1896; eldest son of late Joseph Story, J.P., of Bingfield, Co. Cavan; b. 1854; m., 1st, 1879, Florence (d. 1888), eldest dau. of W. Harrington Bushe, of Clifton; 2nd, 1896, Mary, fourth dau. of late Edward Jollie, of Waireka, New Zealand. Res.: Bingfield, Crossdoney, Co. Cavan.

STRAHAN, Rev. Professor James, M.A., D.D.; Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Criticism in the McCrea-Magee College, Londonderry, from 1915. Educ.: Grammar School, Old Aberdeen; King's College, Aberdeen; New College, Edinburgh; Universities of Tôbingen and Berlin; was Hebrew Tutor, New College, Edinburgh, 1885-1890: Minister of St. Fergus Free Church, 1890-1903; Belgrave Presbyterian Church, London, 1903-10; Cunningham Lecturer Edinburgh, 1915; Smyth Lecturer, Londonderry, 1916. Pubns.: Hebrew Ideals (2 vols.), 1903-6; The Captivity and Pastoral Epistles, 1910; The Book of Job, 1913; The Maréchale, 1914; Life of Professor A. B. Davidson, 1917; Judges and Ruth, 1919; Memoir of Mary Crawford Brown, 1920; contributions to Theological Review, Critical Preview, Expository Times, and Hastings' Dictionaries. Recns.: cycling and mountain-climbing; b. in Aberdeenshire, 1863; m. 1909, Catherine Evangeline Booth-Clibborn, grand-dau. of General Booth, and has issue two sons and one dau. Res.: 7 College Avenue, Londonderry.

STRAHAN, James Andrew, M.A. (Q.U.I.), LL.B. (R.U.I.); Professor of Jurisprudence University of Belfast from 1909; Reader of Equity, Inns of Court, London from 1897; Examiner in Equity and the Law of Property, University of London. Educ.: Queen's University, Ireland; Royal University; called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1883; Regius Professor of English Law, Queen's College, Belfast, 1886-98; Hon. Counsel to the Institute of Journalists; contested (L.) South Islington, 1900. Pubns.: The Bench and Bar of England, 1919; The Law of Property (6th ed., 1919); The Law of Wills; An Introduction to Conveyancing; Comments on Recent Copyright Cases; Leading Cases in Equity; The Law of Mortgages; Chapters on Equity in Stephen's Commentaries on the Laws of England; Editor of Ashburner's Principles of Equity; Joint Author of Strahan and Kenrick's Digest of Equity; Strahan and Oldham's Copyright Act, 1911; Strahan and Oldham's Law of Partnership; Underbill and Strahan's Interpretation of Wills; Fisher and Strahan's Law of the Press; Macassey and Strahan's Law of Civil Engineers, etc.; has contributed many articles, etc., to the Law Quarterly, Law Magazine and Review, Law Times, Blackwood's Magazine, Truth, Chambers's Journal, etc.; Author, under the pen name of Andrew James, of Ninety-Eight and Sixty Years After, 1911. Recns.: walking, travel, and literature; fifth son of John Strahan, of Belfast: b. Carrickfergus, 29th Jan., 1858; m. 1888, Emma, only child of Baron P. Von Ferglas and granddau. of Sir H. Dryden, Bart., of Canons Ashby, Northants, and has issue one dau. Res.: 1 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London W.C; 23 Kensington Mansions, Earl's Court, London S.W.5. Club: Athenæum.

STRAHAN, Right Rev. William Gordon, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland; B.A., Royal University of Ireland; D.D., Presbyterian Theological Faculty of Ireland. Educ.: Coleraine Academical Institution and Ballymena Academy; Queen's College, Belfast, and General Assembly's College, Belfast. Minister of the First Presbyterian Church (Sandys Street), Newry. Member of Viceregal Committee of Enquiry into Primary Education (Ireland) 1918; member of Departmental Committee on the Educational Services in Northern Ireland, 1921; Commissioner of National Education in Ireland; b. 2nd May, 1863; only son of Mr. Thomas Strahan, Clinty, Ballymena. Res.: The Manse, Downshire Place, Newry.

STRITCH, John Russell, Solicitor, Royal Swedish Consul; J.P. (City of Dublin): Member of the Dublin Corporation; Chairman Port of Dublin Sanitary Authority; Deputy Chairman, Public Health Committee; Deputy Chairman, Technical Instruction Committee; Member of the Finance and General Purposes Committee; Governor of the Royal Irish Academy of Music; Governor of the Orthopaedic Hospital; Governor of the Royal Hospital for Incurables; Governor of the Richmond and Portrane Mental Hospital; Honorary Film Censor and