William Monypenny was born in Ballyworkan, County Armagh, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford. He was assistant editor of The Times from 1894 to 1899, and when he returned from South Africa, having been editor of The Star, he became director of The Times. He published posthumously Two Irish Nations and was chosen as biographer of Disraeli.

Born:	7 August 1866
Died:	23 November 1912