About Edward Coey Bigger
Lived 1861 – 1942 (aged 80–81). Edward Coey Bigger was an Irish and British politician and physician.
Sir Edward Coey Bigger (1861 – 1 June 1942) was an Irish politician and physician. He was an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 1925 to 1936. He was first elected to the Seanad at the 1925 election for 9 years. He was re-elected at the 1934 election for 3 years.
Bigger was the Crown Representative for Ireland on the British General Medical Council from 1917 to 1927. and then the General Nursing Council for the Irish Free State from 1929. He was on the Joint Nursing and Midwives’ Council for Northern Ireland at the time of his death in 1942. He was on the Royal College of Nursing Council 1924-1932.
He was knighted in the 1921 New Year Honours for his contribution to public health.
One of his brothers was Francis Joseph Bigger. His son Joseph Warwick Bigger was a senator from 1947 to 1951.
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Who was Edward Coey Bigger?
Irish politician and physician
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Edward Coey Bigger was born in 1861.
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Edward Coey Bigger died on 1 June 1942.
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Edward Coey Bigger was a politician and physician.
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Edward Coey Bigger was Irish and British.
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