Sir Dudley Evelyn Bruce McCorkell,

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, JP, DL, (22 February 1883 – 30 May 1960) was a

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(1929–35),

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(1957–60) and ''ex officio'' member of the

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Career

McCorkell was educated at

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and Pembroke College,

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, where he won a

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for hockey; playing for two seasons. At the outbreak of

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, McCorkell offered himself for active service but his offer was declined on medical grounds. He devoted his time to the British

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Society and the

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where he served as Director for

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and

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during the war. In 1918, he was invested as an

for his work during the war. He was a Knight of Justice of the

. In 1917 he was made a

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of the County, he was

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from 1925–26 and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for County Londonderry in 1926. Like his grandfather, Bartholomew McCorkell JP, he was elected as

from 1929 and served in that capacity until 1934. He also served as an ''ex officio'' member of the

and in that capacity he attended the Ottawa Conference on Trade in 1932. He was

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in 1933. McCorkell, along with his nephew Colonel Sir Michael McCorkell who succeeded him, served as Harbour Board Commissioners and as Chairmen of Wm. McCorkell, who operated the

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. He was appointed Vice Lieutenant of County Londonderry in 1953 and from 1957, until his death, McCorkell served as Her Majesty's

. Sir Dudley was also the first President of the Derry Horticultural Society.

Derry City F.C.

He was chairman of

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Amelia Earhart

While McCorkell was

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completed her first solo transatlantic flight when she landed in Ballyarnett, County Londonderry. As Mayor and the landowner, McCorkell welcomed Earhart after her successful flight.

Family

The

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family, originally from Scotland, are from the

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and are a

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. McCorkell's great grandfather William McCorkell set up the

in 1778; the family shipping business. McCorkell was a descendant of The Earls of Longford and

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. McCorkell, who was knighted in 1933, was married to Helen Elizabeth Usher; the couple had one son and three daughters. His son Lt. Francis Dudley Pakenham McCorkell served in the 2nd Battalion

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during

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and was killed in action on the 6 August 1944 at the age of 21. He is buried in the St. Charles de Percy War Cemetery in

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. Colonel Sir Michael McCorkell was his nephew. McCorkell lived in the family home at Ballyarnett, County Londonderry.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCorkell, Dudley 1883 births 1960 deaths Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge High Sheriffs of County Londonderry Knights Bachelor Lord-Lieutenants of County Londonderry Mayors of Derry Members of the Order of the British Empire Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1929–1933 Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1933–1937 People educated at Shrewsbury School Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland