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Tim Healy | |
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![]() 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 | Bantry, County Cork, Ireland | 17 May 1855
Died | 26 March 1931 Chapelizod, County Dublin, Ireland | (aged 75)
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 he was the first governor-general of the Irish Free State.