He acted for long as Redmond's secretary and always as his counsellor--for in all the detail of parliamentary business, especially on the side of private bill legislation, the House had few more capable members.

He was perhaps more completely than Mr.
Devlin one of the little group of intimates with whom Redmond loved to surround himself in the country.

All the rest were old champions of the fight over Parnell's body; but by far the closest friend of all was his brother Willie.

Their marriages to kinswomen had redoubled the tie of blood.
It should be noted here that Redmond married for the second time in 1899, after ten years of widowerhood.

His wife was, by his wish and her own, never at all in the public eye.