Arthur Vincent (politician)
{{Short description|Irish politician, barrister and judge (1876–1956)}}
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| office = Senator
| term_start = 28 May 1931
| term_end = 21 February 1934
| birth_name = Arthur Rose Vincent
| birth_date = {{birth date|1876|6|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, India
| death_date = {{death date and age|1956|9|24|1876|6|9|df=y}}
| death_place = Monaco City, Monaco
| resting_place = Killegy Cemetery, Muckross Estate, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
| party = Independent
| spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Maud Bowers Bourn|1910|1929|end=her death}}|{{marriage|Dorothy Hughes|1933}}}}
| children = 2
| relatives = William Bowers Bourn II
(father-in-law)
| education = Wellington College, Berkshire
| alma_mater = {{ubl|Collège de France|Trinity College, Dublin|King's Inns}}
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Arthur Rose Vincent CBE (9 June 1876 – 24 September 1956) was an Irish politician and barrister who served as a Senator from 1931 to 1934. He also served as a judge of various British colonial and extraterritorial courts. He donated Muckross House and its estate to the Irish state with his parents-in-law.
Early life
Vincent was born into an Anglo-Irish family based in Summerhill House in Clonlara, County Clare. His parents were Colonel Arthur Hare Vincent and Elizabeth Davidson-Manson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.muckrosshouseresearchlibrary.ie/|title=MHRL Home Page|website=www.muckrosshouseresearchlibrary.ie}}
Vincent was born in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, India,{{cite web|title=Arthur Rose Vincent|url=http://gene-genie.net/individual.php?pid%3DIND1041%26ged%3DSmith_Hotten_Dimaline_Gurr|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130924151119/http://gene-genie.net/individual.php?pid=IND1041&ged=Smith_Hotten_Dimaline_Gurr|archive-date=24 September 2013|access-date=25 May 2013|website=gene-genie.net}} where his father commanded the 3rd The King's Own Hussars. He left there by the time he was three and never went back to India.
Vincent was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, Collège de France, Paris and at Trinity College, Dublin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws and qualified as Barrister with King's Inns, Dublin.
Judicial career
In 1903, Vincent joined the Foreign Office Judicial service. In that year, he was appointed Magistrate in Kisumu, British East Africa.Foreign Office List, 1911 In 1905, he appointed Second Assistant Judge in Zanzibar.London Gazette, 1 May 1905, p3245 With effect from April 1906, he was appointed Assistant Judge for the British Court for Siam in Bangkok.London Gazette, 25 May 1906. In 1908, he was appointed Acting Assistant Judge of the British Supreme Court for China in Shanghai while the Judge of the Court Havilland de Sausmarez was on sick leave.North China Herald, 6 June 1908 He served in that position for one year. He met his future wife travelling from Shanghai to San Francisco. He returned to Zanzibar as Acting Assistant Judge briefly from October 1909 to January 1910, when he resigned from Foreign Office service.
Later life
He served as High Sheriff of Kerry in 1915 and as a justice of the peace.{{Cite web|title=The Bourn Vincent Family|url=http://www.muckrosshouseresearchlibrary.ie/bourn-vincent-family.php|url-status=live|access-date=20 May 2021|website=www.muckrosshouseresearchlibrary.ie|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919211233/http://www.muckrosshouseresearchlibrary.ie/bourn-vincent-family.php|archive-date=19 September 2020}}
In 1919, Vincent, who was then serving as the Chicago Representative of the Ministry of Information, was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.{{London Gazette |issue=31114 |supp=y |page=451|date=8 January 1919}}
Vincent was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1931 to 1934.{{cite web|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/member/Arthur-A-Bourn-Vincent.S.1931-05-28/|title=Arthur Vincent|work=Oireachtas Members Database|access-date=5 April 2013}} He was elected at a by-election on 28 May 1931 taking the seat vacated by the death of Senator Patrick W. Kenny. He was re-elected in 1931 for 9 years. He resigned on 21 February 1934 due to reasons of ill-health.{{cite web|url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/seanad1934022100004?opendocument|title=Resignation of a Senator|publisher=Houses of the Oireachtas|date=9 December 1924|access-date=5 April 2013}} Patrick Lynch was elected at a by-election to replace him.
In 1932, finding the management and expense of the Muckross estate too complex and too expensive, Vincent and his parents-in-law Mr and Mrs William Bowers Bourn donated Muckross House and its 11,000 acres estate to the Irish state as a memorial to Maud Bourn Vincent.{{Cite web|title=The Bourns - The Bourns Build Filoli|url=http://www.filoli.org/explore-filoli/history/the-bourns-build-filoli.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130716143620/http://www.filoli.org/explore-filoli/history/the-bourns-build-filoli.html|archive-date=16 July 2013|access-date=25 May 2013|website=filoli.org}} It now forms part of Killarney National Park. In 1937, he left Ireland for Monaco, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Only during World War II did he come back to Ireland. He is buried in the Killegy graveyard near Muckross House.
Personal life
Vincent married Maud Bowers Bourn, the daughter of William Bowers Bourn in 1910. They had two children, Elizabeth Bourn and Arthur William Bourn. Maud died from pneumonia in 1929. Vincent married Dorothy Hughes (née Croutear) in 1933.Patricia O'Hare: ″The Bourn Vincent Family of Muckross″ in ″Killarney History and Heritage″, The Collins Press, Cork 2005, p.214, {{ISBN|1-903464-55-2}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222064023/http://www.irelandfunds.org/awb/awbv2.pdf ″Billy on Billy″ by Maurice Hayes, 2004]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304230412/http://www.irelandfunds.org/awb/awbv3.pdf ″One of the Nicest Guys″ by Anne and Bill MCNally, 2012]
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Category:Independent members of Seanad Éireann
Category:Members of the 1928 Seanad
Category:Members of the 1931 Seanad
Category:High sheriffs of Kerry
Category:Politicians from County Kerry
Category:British extraterritorial judges
Category:Irish expatriates in Monaco
Category:Alumni of King's Inns
Category:Irish expatriates in British India