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Rentoul is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Erminda Rentoul Esler, née Erminda Rentoul, (1852? – 1924), Irish novelist *Gervais Rentoul (1884–1946), British politician *Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, née Ida Rentoul, (1888–1960), Australian illustrator of children's books * James Alexander Rentoul (1854–1919), British judge and politician *John Rentoul (born 1958), British journalist *John Laurence Rentoul John Laurence Rentoul (6 July 1845 – 15 April 1926), was a member of the Presbyterian clergy and a poet. Early life John Laurence Rentoul was born in Garvagh, County Londonderry, Ireland, fourth son of the Reverend James Buchan Rentoul, D.D. a ...

Erminda Rentoul Esler
Erminda Rentoul Esler (1852? – 1924) was an Irish novelist who wrote romances and fiction expressing Presbyterian moral values. She was well known in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for her novels and short stories, and was published in the Cornhill Magazine. Biography She was born in Manorcunningham, County Donegal, daughter of the Reverend Alexander Rentoul, and had seven brothers and sisters. Before going to the Queen's University of Belfast she received some of her education in Nîmes Nîmes ( , ; oc, Nimes ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Cévennes, the commune of Nîmes has an estimated population of ... and Berlin. After marrying doctor and science writer Robert Esler she lived in Belfast and London. Her novels have rural settings in Ireland or England. ''The Wardlaws'' (1896), the story of an Irish landowning family whose financial ...
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Gervais Rentoul
Sir Gervais Squire Chittick Rentoul KC (1 August 1884 – 7 March 1946) was a British Conservative politician. He was the eldest son of Judge James Alexander Rentoul, M.P. for East Down 1890–1902, and his wife, Florence Isabella Young. James Rentoul was something of an eccentric and one contemporary newspaper reported of him that "no man, woman or child wished to see him return to East Down." He was born in Plumstead and educated at the City of London School, the Royal University of Ireland and Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained first class honours in Jurisprudence and was President of the Oxford Union Society. While at Oxford he was active in the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). Among the stage roles he played was Angelo in '' Measure for Measure'' (1906)''This is My Case'' and Petruchio in ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1907), a production including the professional actresses Lily Brayton as Katherine (and her real-life sister Agnes as her character's sis ...
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Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, also known as Ida Sherbourne Rentoul and Ida Sherbourne Outhwaite (9 June 1888 – 25 June 1960), was an Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted magical creatures, such as elves and fairies. Early life Ida Rentoul was born in Carlton, Victoria, the youngest child of four and second daughter of the Rev. John Laurence Rentoul, an Irish-born Presbyterian minister and academic, and his wife Annie Isobel (née Rattray). At the time of her birth, her father was a professor at Ormond College, University of Melbourne, and later moderator-general of his church between 1912 and 1914. When World War I broke out, he became chaplain-general of the First Australian Imperial Force. She was educated at Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne. After she married Arthur Grenbry Outhwaite on 8 December 1909, she was generally known as Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Before this, she had variously signed her work I.S.R. and at some point changed th ...
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James Alexander Rentoul
James Alexander Rentoul (1854 – 12 August 1919) was an Irish-born British judge and politician.‘RENTOUL, His Honour James Alexander’, ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200accessed 10 June 2013/ref> Life Early life James Alexander Rentoul was born in Manorcunningham, County Donegal, the eldest son of Reverend Alexander Rentoul. He was educated at Queen's College Galway, Queen's College, Belfast, and the Universities of Berlin and Brussels. Career He was a Presbyterian minister for a number of years before being called to the bar in 1884.'Death Of Judge Rentoul. His Career And His Critics', ''The Times'', 14 August 1919 The novelist Erminda Rentoul Esler was his sister. He was a member of London County Council before being elected Conservative Member of Parliament for East Down at a by-election in 1890. Rentoul was a strong opponent of the Irish language; at Westminster in July 1900 he stated that the Irish language had ...
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John Rentoul
John Rentoul (born 1958) is a British journalist. He is the chief political commentator for ''The Independent''. Early life Rentoul was born in India, where his father was a minister of the Church of South India. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he studied History and English at King's College, Cambridge, and worked on an oil rig before becoming a journalist on '' Accountancy Age''. He is related to Sir Gervais Rentoul, the Conservative MP who was the founding chairman of the 1922 Committee. Career as political journalist Rentoul was a journalist on the ''New Statesman'' between January 1983 and May 1988, latterly as Deputy Editor, and a political reporter for the BBC's '' On the Record'' between 1988 and 1995. He became a political correspondent of ''The Independent'' in 1995 and that newspaper's chief leader writer from January 1997, before becoming chief political commentator for '' The Independent on Sunday'' in 2004. His biography of Tony Blair has passed throu ...
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