Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson,
PC,
PC (Ire),
KC (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as
Sir Edward Carson, was an
Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge. He was leader of the
Irish Unionist Alliance and
Ulster Unionist Party between 1910 and 1921, held numerous positions in the
Cabinet of the United Kingdom and served as a
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was one of the few people not a monarch to receive a British
state funeral. Historian John Brown says that "His larger than life-size statue, erected in his own lifetime in front of the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont, symbolizes the widely held perception that Northern Ireland is Carson's creation."