Thom's Irish Who's Who/Macartney-Filgate, William Townley Geo. Seymour

MACARTNEY-FILGATE, William Townley Geo. Seymour; eldest son of Townley P. H. Macartney-Filgate, Capt Scots Grevs; Inspector-Gen. of Registration, Bombay Presidency; J.P. (d. 1906), by Tryphena, eldest dau (deed.) of late Rt. Hon. Sir W. R. V. Seymour Fitzgerald, G.C.S.I., Governor of Bombay: b. 1864; Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusaleni; J.P., Co. Dublin: D.L., Co Louth (High Sheriff, 1915); Sec. Irish Textile Exhibition, 1897; Sec. Irish Com. Roy. Commission Paris Exhib., 1898-9; Dir. Irish Sect. Glasgow Interl. Exhib., 1901; Dir. Depth Sect., Cork Interl. Exhib., 1902; Depth Rep. Irish Sect.. St. Louis, U.S.A. World Fair, 1904; Dept. Rep. Munster-Connacht Exhib, 1906: Dir. Home Ind. Sect., Irish Intl. Exhib., 1907; Dept. Rep. Franco-British Exhib., 1908; Controller of Equipment Ministry of Munitions (Ireland), 1915-18; Controller (Ireland) Raw Material Dept., 1918-20; Inspector for Industries, Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland since 1900. Formerly Member Imp. Museum of Techy., Austria. Has received thanks and Presentation from President of France for assistance in Direct Trade intercourse with Ireland; Member Brit. Ch. of Com., Marseilles, and Brit. Cham. of Com. for Italy. Edited Irish Rural Life and Industry, 1907, and wrote Irish Indl. Sur. for Irish Convn, 1917. Res.: Lowtherstone, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Kildare Street and Sackville Street, Dublin; Royal S . George Yacht, Kingstown; Carlton, London; Union, Genoa.