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Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun, PC (30 April 1861 – 12 October 1934) was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician. Born in Ulster, the son of Edmund McNeill DL, JP - the Sheriff of County Antrim, and his wife, née Mary Miller. Lord Cushendun was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1886. After being called to the bar in 1888, he worked as editor of the St James's Gazette (1900–04) as well as assistant editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1906–10). Lord Cushendun married Elizabeth Maud Bolitho in 1884. They had three daughters; Esther Rose, Loveday Violet and Mary Morvenna Bolitho (who married Major Philip Le Grand Gribble). Elizabeth died in 1925. Lord Cushendon married Catherine Sydney Louisa Margesson as his second wife in 1930. She survived him, dying in 1939.[1] Having unsuccessfully contested the seats of West Aberdeenshire (1906), Aberdeen South (1907 and Jan 1910), and Kirkcudbrightshire (Dec 1910), McNeill was elected as Unionist
...Member of Parliament for the St Augustine's division of Kent in 1911. Seven years later he became representative for Canterbury, and in 1922 was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a post he held, with a short interval, until 1925. After serving as Financial Secretary to the Treasury for two years, McNeill was in 1927 made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster with a seat in the Cabinet. He was also that year created Baron Cushendun, of Cushendun in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, taking his title from the village he had designed by Clough Williams-Ellis in memory of his Cornish wife, Maud, who died in 1925. Acting Foreign Secretary in 1928 and twice chief British representative to the League of Nations, it was Lord Cushendun who signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact in August that year. He retired from office in 1929, and died five years later in Cushendun.
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