Life
1828-1890; Irish politician and Belfast provision merchant; joined Butt’s
Home Rule Association 1870; MP Cavan, 1874-1890; joined IRB 1875, and
expelled 1877; Land League treasurer 1879; opposed Gladstone’s policy,
1880-1; conduct investigated in Parnell commission, 1887; adopted policy
of parliamentary ‘obstruction’, 1875 onwards; once had Prince
of Wales dismissed from House by calling ‘I spy, stranger’;
Land League proponent. DNB DIH FDA OCIL
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Notes
John Horgan, From Parnell to Pearse (1948), describes Biggar
as ‘an uncouth little Ulster tradesman’ (p.16).
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)