Andrew Commins

Dr Andrew Commins (1829^[1] – 7 January 1916) was an Irish lawyer and politician.^[2]

Andrew Commins was born in Ballybeg, County Carlow and educated at St. Patrick's College, Carlow and Queen's College, Cork where he was awarded an MA in 1854. In 1858 he was awarded an LLD degree from the University of London. He became a barrister at Lincoln's Inn in 1860, working on the Northern Circuit. ^[3]

In 1876, he was elected as an Irish Home Rule Councillor to Liverpool Town Council to represent the Vauxhall ward which he continued to represent until 1892, ^{[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} when he was elected as an alderman, a post he continued to hold until his resignation in 1913. ^{[10] [11] [12] [13] [14]}

In 1880 he was elected to parliament for Roscommon representing the Home Rule League, then the Irish Parliamentary Party. From 1885 he sat for the new constituency of Roscommon South. In the Parnell split of 1891 he was a member of the majority Anti-Parnellite group, and in the general election of 1892 lost his seat to a Parnellite candidate. In a June 1893 by-election he was returned for South East Cork, and sat as MP for the constituency until the general election of 1900.^[15]

Notes

1. A number of sources list Commins as born in 1832; however both Who Was Who and the UK census of 1901 and 1911 (when he was resident in West Derby, Liverpool) give 1829 as his year of birth.
2. ‘COMMINS, Andrew’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 16 July 2013
3. Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1882 (Dean and Son, 1882), page 53.
4. Liverpool Borough Council Proceedings of the Council 1876-1877 pg2
5. Liverpool Borough Council Proceedings of the Council 1879-1880 pg 2
6. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1882-1883 pg 2
7. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1885-1886 pg 2
8. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1888-1889 pg 2
9. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1891-1892 pg 2
10. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1892-1893 pg 7
11. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1898-1899 pg 7
12. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1904-1905 pg 8
13. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1910-1911 pg 8
14. Liverpool City Council Proceedings of the Council 1910-1911 pg 404
15. Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Branch (Dean and Son, 1896) page 32.

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Andrew Commins
• Painting of Andrew Commins in 1876, from National Museums Liverpool