Rickard Deasy PC

Privy Council of Ireland

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 (1812 – 6 May 1883) was an Irish lawyer and judge.

Dease was elected as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for County County on 23 April 1855 in a by-election following Edmond Roche's

Edmond Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy

Edmond Burke Roche, 1st Baron Fermoy was an Irish Member of Parliament.Fermoy was the son of Edward Roche and Margaret Honoria Curtain. He was elected to the House of Commons for County Cork in 1837, a seat he held until 1855, and then represented Marylebone between 1859 and 1865. In 1855 he was...

 elevation to the peerage. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland

Solicitor-General for Ireland

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 in 1859 and then made Attorney-General for Ireland

Attorney-General for Ireland

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 in 1860, being also appointed to the Irish Privy Council (on 21 February). On the death of Richard Wilson Greene

Richard Wilson Greene

Richard Wilson Greene PC, KC was an Irish judge.Greene was born in Dublin, the son of Sir Jonas Greene, Recorder of Dublin, and graduated from the University of Dublin, where he was auditor of the College Historical Society. He was called to the Bar in 1814 and became King's Counsel in 1830. For...

 in 1861 Deasy was raised to the bench as a Baron of the Exchequer, and was appointed to the Irish Court of Appeal

Irish Court of Appeal

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in 1878. His name is permanently associated with the Landlord and Tenant Act 1860, universally known as Deasy's Act , which as Attorney General he steered through Parliament.