Bryan Mahon
Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon KCB , KCVO , PC , DSO (born April 2, 1862 in Belleville , County Galway , Ireland ; † September 29, 1930 in Dublin ) was a British Army officer of Irish origin, most recently a general . He was also a senator in the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland and the Seanad Éireann of the Irish Free State .
Life
Mahon was born the eldest son of Henry Blake Mahon and Matilda, daughter of Colonel Thomas Seymour, of Ballymore Castle . He was educated at a school in Portarlington . In 1883 he was accepted as an officer in the 21st Hussars and soon switched to the 8th (The King's Royal Irish) Hussars , with whom he served in British India until 1889 . He was promoted to captain in 1888 and was an adjutant in his regiment from 1890 to 1893 .
Mahon served in the Egyptian army from 1893 to 1900. In the Mahdi uprising , he took part in the Dongola expedition from 1896 and the Nile campaign from 1897-1899 and received several awards, including the Distinguished Service Order . In November 1898 he received the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and in March 1900 that of Colonel. He then went to South Africa, where the Second Boer War had started. Here he was used in staff assignments and as commander of a cavalry brigade. In May 1900 he headed the department that brought relief to the beleaguered Mafeking . He has again received several awards, including the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps, and was accepted as a Companion in the Order of the Bath .
From 1901 to 1904 Mahon served as governor of the Sudanese province of Kordofan and in 1904 received the regular rank of colonel. From 1904 to 1908 he commanded a district in India and in 1909 was commander of a division there with the rank of major-general . In 1911 he was accepted as a Knight Commander in the Royal Victorian Order and promoted to Lieutenant-General in September 1912 .
During the First World War he set up the 10th (Irish) Division of the New Army from August 1914 , which he subsequently commanded until October 1915. She was used during this time, among other things, as part of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in the Battle of Gallipoli and later withdrawn to Salonika . Mahon was at the emergent here Salonica command of the British Army Salonika , where he remained until May 1916, as what the future him Field Marshal George Milne succeeded. Mahon was then transferred to Egypt, where he briefly commanded the Western Frontier Force of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force .
Mahon was Commander-in-Chief in Ireland from November 1916 to June 1918 and was inducted into the Privy Council of Ireland in 1917 and made Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath. He then came to the Western Front in France, where he worked as a military commander in liberated Lille until early 1919.
In 1921 Mahon retired with the rank of general and settled in Mullaboden . He was named Senator of the short-lived Southern Ireland and subsequently served in the Senate of the Irish Free State, of which he was a member until his death.
Mahon was among other things a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (since 1902). He was related to the politician Edward Carson .
Web links
- Obituary in the Kildare Observer of September 27, 1930 on kildare.ie
- The Townland of Belleville - Séamus Gillhooley (with a short biography of Mahon)
- Entry on angloboerwar.com
- Entry in the Seanad Members' Directory on oireachtas.ie
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| - | Commander in Chief of the British Salonika Army 1915–1916 |
George Milne |
| John Grenfell Maxwell |
Commander in Chief in Ireland 1916–1918 |
Frederick Shaw |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mahon, Bryan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mahon, Bryan Thomas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish-British officer in the British Army, most recently General, and Irish Senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1862 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Belleville , County Galway , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1930 |
| Place of death | Dublin |