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About William Hacket Pain
Brigadier-General Sir George William Hacket Pain, KBE, CB was a British Army officer and Royal Irish Constabulary commissioner. He played a key part in setting up the Ulster Volunteers as a unionist militia during the Home Rule crisis of 1912, and was believed to have organised gun-running. At the outbreak of the First World War he served in command of a Brigade of the Ulster Division and commanding British forces in the north of Ireland. He served briefly as a Unionist Member of Parliament.
Everything about William Hacket Pain →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- member of the 31st Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 5, 1855
- Died
- February 14, 1924