Timothy Michael Healy
(1855-1931), Politician, first Governor-General of Irish Free State, journalist, author and barristerSitter in 4 portraits
Irish-born Healy entered Parliament as an MP in 1880, where he was associated with Charles Stewart Parnell, the leading Irish nationalist. He became an authority on the Irish land question and was responsible for the 'Healy Clause' of the Land Act of 1881, which protected tenant farmers from rent increases imposed by landlords. He broke with Parnell in 1886, though he was a strong supporter of proposals for Irish Home Rule. Healy supported the Sinn Féin Party after 1917. Regarded as an elder statesman by the British and Irish ministries, he was proposed by both sides in 1922 as Governor-General of the new Irish Free State, a post that he held until 1928.
William Ewart Gladstone; Timothy Michael Healy
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil
NPG 2319
Timothy Michael Healy; Justin McCarthy; Thomas Sexton
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink and wash, before 1891
NPG 3620
by Benjamin Stone
platinum print, July 1898
NPG x20376
Timothy Michael Healy ('Statesmen. No. 485.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 3 April 1886
NPG D44273
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