Arthur Vincent (politician)

Arthur Rose Vincent CBE (9 June 1876 – 24 September 1956) was an Irish politician and barrister who served as a Senator from 1931 to 1934.

Vincent was born into an Anglo-Irish family based in Summerhill House in Clonlara, County Clare.

[1] Vincent was born in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, India,[2] where his father commanded the 3rd The King's Own Hussars.

[4] With effect from April 1906, he was appointed Assistant Judge for the British Court for Siam in Bangkok.

He returned to Zanzibar as Acting Assistant Judge briefly from October 1909 to January 1910, when he resigned from Foreign Office service.

[7] In 1919, Vincent, who was then serving as the Chicago Representative of the Ministry of Information, was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

[9] In 1932, finding the management and expense of the Muckross estate too complex and too expensive, Vincent and his parents-in-law Mr and Mrs William Bowers Bourn donated Muckross House and its 11,000 acres estate to the Irish state as a memorial to Maud Bourn Vincent.