Charles James O'Donnell

Charles James O'Cahan O'Donnell (1849 – 3 December 1934)[1] was an Irish colonial administrator in the British Raj, and later a member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[citation needed] He was appointed assistant to the Director General of Statistics William Wilson Hunter in 1875 but returned to district work as a joint magistrate in 1884.

He engaged in politics after his return to the United Kingdom, and was elected as the Liberal opposition candidate for Walworth constituency in London in January 1903.

[3] In Parliament, O'Donnell levelled heavy criticism at the Secretary of State for India, for actions such as the partition of Bengal in 1905.

[citation needed] His legacy includes the commission of the annual "O'Donnell lectures" on British or Celtic elements in the English language or the existing population of England, which are held at the universities of Edinburgh, Oxford, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Swansea and Lampeter (Trinity St David).