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O'Connor, Thomas Power (1848–1929)| Irish journalist and politician. He became a sub-editor on the Daily Telegraph, leaving this for an appointment in the London office of the New York Herald. He entered Parliament in 1880 and became a prominent personality in the Nationalist Party. In 1885 he became MP for the Scotland division of Liverpool and remained so for the rest of his life. |
| He became ‘Father of the House’ in 1918, and was made a privy councillor in 1924. |
| His books include The Parnell Movement (1886), In the Days of my Youth (1901), and Memoirs of an Old Parliamentarian (1929). |
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