Plutarch
a Greek biographer and gaining that sympathetic understanding moralist, a native of Chæronea, in Bœoof the farmer's needs that has distin- tia. In A. D. 66 he was a pupil pil of the guished his work for Ireland. In 1894, philosopher Ammonius at Delphi. He after his return to Ireland he founded visited Italy, and spent some time at the Irish Agricultural Organization Society which has accomplished a great early as the reign of Domitian. He rework for Irish Agriculture. From 1892 turned to his native town, where he to 1900 he was a Unionist member of Parliament, serving most of the time on pointed priest of Apollo. He was still Commissions having to do with Irish living in 120, but the time of his death affairs. Lukewarm at first toward the is not known. His great work is encause of Irish Home Rule, Sir Horace titled "Parallel Lives," and consists of finally became an exponent of it in 1914. biographies of 46 eminent Greeks and He presided over the convention called by the Prime Minister in 1917 and wrote the majority report. He has recently espoused the cause of a Dominion government for Ireland.