Editing Anglo-Irish Treaty (section)

==Negotiators==
The negotiators included:
{| class="wikitable" 
|+ British side
!Portrait
!Name
!Portfolio
|-
|[[File:David Lloyd George.jpg|60px]]
|[[David Lloyd George]] (delegation chairman) <br /><small>MP for [[Caernarfon (UK Parliament constituency)|Caernarvon Boroughs]]</small>
|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]]
|-
|[[File:1stEarlOfBirkenhead.jpg|60px]]
|[[F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead|Lord Birkenhead]]
|[[Lord Chancellor]]
|-
|[[File:Austen Chamberlain MP.jpg|60px]]
|[[Austen Chamberlain]] <br /><small>MP for [[Birmingham West (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham West]]</small>
|{{ubl|[[Lord Privy Seal]]|[[Leader of the House of Commons]]}}
|-
|[[File:Sir Winston Churchill - 19086236948.jpg|60px]]
|[[Winston Churchill]] <br><small>MP for [[Dundee (UK Parliament constituency)|Dundee]]</small>
|[[Secretary of State for the Colonies]]
|-
|[[File:Worthington-Evans MP.jpg|80x80px]]
|[[Laming Worthington-Evans|Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt]] <br /><small>MP for [[Colchester (UK Parliament constituency)|Colchester]]</small>
|[[Secretary of State for War]]
|-
|[[File:Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart.jpg|60px]]
|[[Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart|Sir Gordon Hewart]] <br /><small>MP for [[Leicester East (UK Parliament constituency)|Leicester East]]</small>
|[[Attorney General for England and Wales|Attorney General]]
|-
|[[File:Hamar Greenwood (Bain Collection).jpg|60px]]
|[[Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood|Sir Hamar Greenwood]] <br /><small>MP for [[Sunderland (UK Parliament constituency)|Sunderland]]</small>
|[[Chief Secretary for Ireland]]
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Irish side
|-
!Portrait
!Name
!Portfolio
|-
|[[File:Arthur Griffith.jpg|60px]]
|[[Arthur Griffith]] (delegation chairman) <br><small>TD for [[Cavan (Dáil constituency)|Cavan]] and [[Fermanagh and Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Fermanagh and Tyrone]] <br>(MP for [[East Cavan (UK Parliament constituency)|East Cavan]] and [[North West Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)|North West Tyrone]])</small>
|[[Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade|Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs]]
|-
|[[File:Michael Collins.jpg|60px]]
|[[Michael Collins (Irish leader)|Michael Collins]] <br><small>TD for [[Armagh (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency)|Armagh]] and [[Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West (Dáil constituency)|Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West]] <br>(MP for [[South Cork (UK Parliament constituency)|South Cork]])</small>
|[[Minister for Finance (Ireland)|Secretary of State for Finance]]
|-
|[[File:Robert Barton, 1921 (cropped).jpg|60px]]
|[[Robert Barton]] <br><small>TD for [[Kildare–Wicklow (Dáil constituency)|Kildare–Wicklow]] <br>(MP for [[West Wicklow (UK Parliament constituency)|West Wicklow]])</small>
|[[Minister for Economic Affairs|Secretary of State for Economic Affairs]]
|-
|[[File:Eamonn Duggan.jpg|60px]]
|[[Eamonn Duggan]] <br><small>TD for [[Louth–Meath (Dáil constituency)|Louth–Meath]] <br>(MP for [[South Meath (UK Parliament constituency)|South Meath]])</small>
|
|-
|[[File:George Gavan Duffy.jpg|60px]]
|[[George Gavan Duffy]] <br><small>TD for [[Dublin County (Dáil constituency)|Dublin County]] <br>(MP for [[South Dublin (UK Parliament constituency)|South Dublin]])</small>
|
|-
|}

Providing secretarial assistance were:
* For the British:
** [[Thomas Jones (civil servant)|Thomas Jones]]
** [[Lionel Curtis|Lionel George Curtis]]
* For the Irish:
** [[Erskine Childers (author)|Erskine Childers]]
** [[Fionán Lynch]]
** [[Diarmuid O'Hegarty]]
** [[John Smith Chartres]]

Robert Barton was the last surviving signatory. He died on 10 August 1975 at the age of 94.

Notably, the [[President of Dáil Éireann|President of the Irish Republic]] [[Éamon de Valera]] did not attend.

[[Winston Churchill]] held two different roles in the British cabinet during the process of Irish independence: until February 1921 he had been [[Secretary of State for War]] (minister for the Army) hoping to end the [[Irish War of Independence]]; from then on, as [[Secretary of State for the Colonies]] (which included dominion affairs), he was charged with implementing the treaty and conducting relations with the new state.

[[Erskine Childers (author)|Erskine Childers]], the author of ''[[The Riddle of the Sands]]'' and former Clerk of the British House of Commons, served as one of the secretaries of the Irish delegation. [[Thomas Jones (civil servant)|Thomas Jones]] was one of Lloyd George's principal assistants, and described the negotiations in his book ''Whitehall Diary''.