Brigadier-General Sir Joseph Aloysius Byrne, GCMG, KBE, CB (2 October 1874 – 13 November 1942[1]) was the Royal Irish Constabulary's Inspector-General from 1916 until 1920.
The regiment soon saw heavy fighting, and Byrne was wounded at the Siege of Ladysmith,[7] following which he returned home on the hospital ship Maine in March 1900.
[14] He was briefly indisposed from late 1929 until early 1930, during which time Mark Aitchison Young filled in for him as acting governor.
As governor of Sierra Leone, Byrne made a habit of appointing European-educated Africans to as many posts as possible, particularly in the city of Freetown.
Despite this, he took steps to support European settler agriculture and increased funding for African peasant production.