Augustine Birrell
Born on 19th of January 1850
Died on 20th of November 1933
Born 1850. Died 1933 - English politician and writer.
Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Called to Bar in 1875. Liberal MP for West Fife and later Bristol North. Founded National University of Ireland (1908). Author of volumes of essays, wrote biographies including Lives of Charlotte Bronte (1887).
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