Few more useful assistances were rendered to our purpose, and certainly none more pleasant.
Lord Desart, a distinguished lawyer, acted closely with Lord Midleton.
Sir Bertram Windle, President of University College, was another of Government's choices--a man of science who was also very much a man of affairs.

Another, far less of a debater, far more of a power, was Mr.
William Martin Murphy, Chairman of the Dublin Tramways, a powerful employer of labour who had headed the fight against Larkin in 1913, and had been mainly responsible for the character of the employers' victory.
He was the owner of the most widely circulated Irish paper, the _Irish Independent_--which stood in journalism for what Mr.Healy represented in Parliament--an envenomed Nationalist opposition to the Parliamentary party.
Mr.Edward Lysaght, the son of a great manufacturer in South Wales, combined like his father an aptitude for literature and for business; he wrote books, he was concerned in a publishing venture, but he was chiefly interested in his farm in county Clare--where he had voted for de Valera.

He had been chosen deliberately as a link with Sinn Fein.

It stamped an aspect of the Convention that he was the youngest man there--for he would not have been noticeably young in the House of Commons.

We were a middle-aged assembly.