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4 unusual facts about Walter Long


Irish Home Rule movement

Britain went ahead with its commitment to implement Home Rule by passing a new Fourth Home Rule Bill, the Government of Ireland Act 1920, largely shaped by the Walter Long Committee which followed findings contained in the report of the Irish Convention.

Walter Long

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long (1854–1924), British politician, MP, Secretary of State for the Colonies and First Lord of the Admiralty

Sir Walter Long, 1st Baronet (c. 1591–1672), English MP for Ludgershal, prosecuted in the Star Chamber and imprisoned in the Tower of London

Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long

In this capacity, he was largely responsible for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, which followed the findings of the 1917–18 Irish Convention, and created separate home rule governments for Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland, the latter he endowed with wider powers than its southern counterpart.


Archibald Colquhoun

Colquhoun died on 8 December 1820, after an illness of a few days, at the house of his son-in-law, Walter Long, at Hartham, Wiltshire, and was buried in the parish churchyard of New Kilpatrick near Glasgow.

Benjamin Valentine

On 6 May he, with Selden, Holles, William Strode, Miles Hobart, and Walter Long, considering themselves legally entitled to bail, applied to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus.

Martyrs of the Alamo

The film is based on the historical novel of the same name by Theodosia Harris, and features an ensemble cast including Sam De Grasse, Douglas Fairbanks, Walter Long and Alfred Paget.

Tsuru Aoki

Some of her co-stars of the era included such notable names as Marin Sais, Frank Borzage, Gladys Brockwell, Mildred Harris, Jack Holt, Jane Wolfe, Dagmar Godowsky, Vola Vale, Florence Vidor, Earle Foxe, and Walter Long.


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Wendy Dascomb

Dascomb later moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to live with Walter Long, her boyfriend prior to the pageant.