George Darell Shee was an English

England

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 judge, and oldest son of the Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish

Anglo-Irish was a term used primarily in the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a privileged social class in Ireland, whose members were the descendants and successors of the Protestant Ascendancy, mostly belonging to the Church of Ireland, which was the established church of Ireland until...

 judge and politician Sir William Shee

William Shee

Sir William Shee QS was an Anglo-Irish politician, lawyer and judge, the first Roman Catholic judge to sit in England and Wales since the Reformation.-Early life and legal career:...

. He was educated at Trinity Hall

Trinity Hall, Cambridge

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, Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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, where he graduated Bachelor of Laws

Bachelor of Laws

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 in 1866. He was admitted to the Middle Temple

Middle Temple

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 on 6 November 1862, and was called to the bar on 30 April 1867. He joined the south-eastern circuit, became district probate registrar for East Suffolk

East Suffolk

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, and in July 1883 was appointed recorder of Hythe. He married, on 14 October 1873, Jane, eldest daughter of Harry Innes of Thomastown

Thomastown

-Landmarks:Kilfane Glen is a restored historic 1790s garden of romantic era with waterfall, woodland walks and cottage orne. The garden is listed as an Irish Heritage garden and was awarded assistance in 1993 by the European Union Cultural Commission...

, and died at Landguard Lodge, Felixstowe

Felixstowe

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, on 15 December 1894. He was the author of A Remonstrance (Dublin, 1886), which was addressed to Sir Charles Gavan Duffy

Charles Gavan Duffy

Additional Reading*, Allen & Unwin, 1973.*John Mitchel, A Cause Too Many, Aidan Hegarty, Camlane Press.*Thomas Davis, The Thinker and Teacher, Arthur Griffith, M.H. Gill & Son 1922....

, in reply to his attack on Sir William Shee, in a book entitled The League of the North and South.