William Pain

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title: William Pain
text: 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.
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description: Ulster unionist (1855 – 1924)
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