Negotiators
The negotiators included:
| British side | ||
| Portrait | Name | Portfolio |
|---|---|---|
| David Lloyd George (delegation chairman) |
Prime Minister | |
| Lord Birkenhead | Lord Chancellor | |
| Austen Chamberlain |
Lord Privy Seal Leader of the House of Commons |
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| Winston Churchill |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
| Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt |
Secretary of State for War | |
| Sir Gordon Hewart |
Attorney General | |
| Sir Hamar Greenwood |
Chief Secretary for Ireland | |
| Irish side | ||
| Portrait | Name | Portfolio |
| Arthur Griffith (delegation chairman) |
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
| Michael Collins |
Secretary of State for Finance | |
| Robert Barton |
Secretary of State for Economic Affairs | |
| Eamonn Duggan |
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| George Gavan Duffy |
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- Providing Secretarial Assistance
| British side |
| Name |
|---|
| Thomas Jones |
| Lionel George Curtis |
| Irish side |
| Name |
| Robert Erskine Childers |
| Fionán Lynch |
| Diarmuid O'Hegarty |
| John Smith Chartres |
Notably, the Irish President Éamon de Valera did not attend.
Winston Churchill had a dual role in the British cabinet concerning the Treaty: firstly as Secretary of State for War hoping to end the Irish War of Independence in 1921; then in 1922, as Secretary of State for the Colonies (which included Dominion affairs) he was charged with implementing it.
Robert Erskine Childers, the author of the Riddle of the Sands and former Clerk of the British House of Commons, served as one of the secretaries of the Irish delegation. Tom Jones was one of Lloyd George's principal assistants, and described the negotiations in his book Whitehall Diary.
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