CUSHENDUN, 1ST BARON (the Rt. Hon. Ronald John M'Neill, P.C.) , British politician, was born April 3, 186i, the son of an Ulster landowner, Edmund M'Neill, and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford. He became a barrister, but found a career in journalism. In 1899 he became assistant editor of The St. James's Gazette, and was editor of the same journal 1900-04. From 1906-1 o he assisted Mr. Hugh Chisholm in the preparation of the 11 th edition of The Encyclo pedia Britannica. Having made several unsuccessful attempts to enter parliament, he was, in 1911, returned as Conservative M.P. for the St. Augustine (in 1918 for the Canterbury) division of Kent. As a politician he was for some years associated with Sir Edward Carson and the more strenuous opponents of Home Rule. When Baldwin formed his first ministry in 1922, M'Neill was appointed Under-secretary for Foreign Affairs ; he held that office until early in 1924 and returned to it in Nov. of the same year again under Baldwin. From 1925-27 he was financial secre tary to the Treasury. In 1927 he was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and raised to the peerage in the same year, taking the title Baron Cushendun from one of his family estates. When Sir Austen Chamberlain was obliged by ill-health to relinquish the conduct of the Foreign Office in the summer of 1928, Lord Cushendun took his place. He was signatory for Great Britain of the Kellogg Peace Pact, Aug. 27, 1928.