Tim Healy (politician)

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Tim Healy
Healy, c. 1915
1st Governor-General of the Irish Free State
In office 6 December 1922 – 31 January 1928
Monarch	George V
Preceded by	New office
Succeeded by	James McNeill
Member of Parliament
In office 1880–1918
Personal details
Born	(1855-05-17)17 May 1855 Bantry, County Cork, Ireland
Died	26 March 1931(1931-03-26) (aged 75) Chapelizod, County Dublin, Ireland
Spouse	Erina Sullivan (m. 1882, d. 1927)
Profession	Politician

Timothy Michael Healy, KC (17 May 1855 – 26 March 1931) was an Irish nationalist politician, journalist, author, barrister and a controversial Irish Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. His political career began in the 1880s under Charles Stewart Parnell's leadership of the Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) and continued into the 1920s, when (on 5 December 1922) he was appointed as the first governor-general of the Irish Free State.^[1]