Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (born Dec. 24, 1854, Sherborne, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died March 26, 1932, Weybridge, Surrey) was a pioneer of Irish agricultural cooperation who strongly influenced the rise of the agricultural cooperative movement in Great Britain and the Commonwealth. Plunkett, whose father was a baron in the Irish peerage and whose family seat was at Dunsany, County Meath, was educated in England. He went to the United States in 1879 and spent 10 years as...