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This is a list of lawyers who held the rank of serjeant-at-law

Serjeant-at-law

The Serjeants-at-Law was an order of barristers at the English bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law , or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are writs dating to 1300 which identify them as descended from figures in France prior to the Norman Conquest...

at the Irish Bar.

Unlike in England, for many years there was only one Serjeant-at-Law in Ireland, who was known as the King’s Serjeant or simply Serjeant. In 1627 another was appointed, and they were known as the Prime Serjeant and Second Serjeant. In 1682 a Third Serjeant was appointed. In 1805 the Prime Serjeant became known as First Serjeant.

The serjeants-at-law ranked ahead of the Attorney-General for Ireland

Attorney-General for Ireland

The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then United Kingdom government office. The holder was senior to the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and advised the Crown on Irish legal matters...

and the Solicitor-General for Ireland

Solicitor-General for Ireland

The Solicitor-General for Ireland was the holder of an Irish and then United Kingdom government office. The holder was a deputy to the Attorney-General for Ireland, and advised the Crown on Irish legal matters. At least one holder of the office, Patrick Barnewall played a significant role in...

until 1805, when the law officer

Law Officers of the Crown

The Law Officers of the Crown are the chief legal advisers to the Crown, and advise and represent the various governments in the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth Realms. In England and Wales, Northern Ireland and most Commonwealth and colonial governments, the chief law officer of the...

s took precedence.

King’s Serjeants, 1326-1627

12 February 1326: Simon Fitz-Richard
3 December 1341: Hugh Brown
1 June 1343: William le Petit
134-: Robert de Preston
19 November 1357: Edmund de Bereford
1373/4: John Tyrell
John Tyrell
Sir John Tyrrell possessed the manor of Heron , Essex, was Knight of the Shire for that county, and Speaker of the House of Commons....
18 April 1375: Richard Plunket
1375: Walter Cotterell
24 September 1388: John Bermyngham
20 October 1422: Charles Barnewall
8 November 1434: Sir Thomas Fitz-Christopher Plunket
20 June 1435: Robert Dowdall
4 February 1437: Edward Somerton
1532: Sir Thomas Luttrell
Thomas Luttrell
Sir Thomas Luttrell was a leading Anglo-Irish nobleman of the sixteenth-century Irish Pale, and was also a distinguished lawyer and judge who held the offices of Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas....
1534: Patrick Barnewall
Patrick Barnewall (Solicitor General)
Patrick Barnewall was a leading figure in the Irish Government in the 1530s and 1540s, due largely to his close links with Thomas Cromwell. He held the offices of Solicitor General for Ireland and Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Today he is remembered mainly for his role in founding the King's Inns...
1550: Sir John Bathe
John Bathe (politician)
John Bathe was a member of a famous legal dynasty and himself had a distinguished career under the Tudors, being Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas....
11 September 1554: Richard Finglas
21 February 1574: Edward Fitz-Symon
9 May 1594: Arthur Corye
1 November 1597: Edward Loftus
8 June 1601: Edward Kerdiffe
9 February 1609: Sir John Beere
13 May 1617: Sir John Brereton
John Brereton
John Brereton was a gentleman adventurer and chronicler of the 1602 voyage to the New World led by Bartholomew Gosnold.Brereton recorded the first European exploration of Cape Cod and its environs...

Prime Serjeants, 1627-1805

23 May 1627: Sir John Brereton
John Brereton
John Brereton was a gentleman adventurer and chronicler of the 1602 voyage to the New World led by Bartholomew Gosnold.Brereton recorded the first European exploration of Cape Cod and its environs...
6 October 1629: James Barry
James Barry, 1st Baron Barry of Santry
James Barry, 1st Baron Barry of Santry PC was an Irish lawyer.-Early life:Barry was the son of Richard Barry and Anne Cusack. His father and grandfather were wealthy merchants of Dublin, his grandfather having been sheriff, and his father mayor and representative in parliament of that city...
August 1634: Sir Maurice Eustace
20 September 1660: Sir Audley Mervyn
Audley Mervyn
Sir Audley Mervyn of Trillick was a lawyer and politician in Ireland. M.P. for County Tyrone and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 1661-1666....
26 October 1675: Sir William Davys
by 1680: John Osborne
John Osborne
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....

(succeeded under a patent of reversion dated 29 August 1676; deprived 1686)
15 February 1687: Gerald Dillon
Gerald Dillon
Gerard Dillon was an Irish artist.Born in Belfast, he left school at the age of fourteen and for seven years worked as a painter and decorator, mostly in London. From an early age he was interested in art, cinema, and theatre. About 1936 he started out as an artist, almost entirely self-taught but...
29 September 1690: John Osborne
John Osborne
John James Osborne was an English playwright, screenwriter, actor and critic of the Establishment. The success of his 1956 play Look Back in Anger transformed English theatre....

(restored)
29 December 1692: Nehemiah Donnellan
Nehemiah Donnellan (1649-1705)
Nehemiah Donellan was an Irish lawyer, the son of Sir James Donnellan and grandson of Archbishop Nehemiah Donnellan. His mother was Sarah Wheeler, daughter of Jonah Wheeler, Bishop of Ossory. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1666...
5 November 1695: Sir Thomas Packenham
1 December 1703: Robert Saunders
28 February 1708: William Neave
8 December 1714: William Caulfield
William Caulfield
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11 August 1711: Robert Blennerhassett
Robert Blennerhassett
Robert Blennerhassett was an Irish lawyer.He served in the Irish House of Commons for Clonmel in 1692 and 1695, and Limerick from 1703.He was father of Arthur Blennerhassett.-References:...
9 February 1712: Morley Saunders
13 June 1715: Godfrey Boate
23 June 1716: Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald
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26 January 1724: Francis Bernard
Francis Bernard (lawyer)
Francis Bernard SL was an Irish lawyer and politician.He was the son of Francis Bernard of Castle Mahon. Bernard sat as Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. He represented Clonakilty between 1692 and 1695 and subsequently Bandonbridge between 1695 and 1727...
22 June 1726: Henry Singleton
Henry Singleton (judge)
Henry Singleton was an Irish judge, remembered now mainly for his friendship with Jonathan Swift.He was born in Drogheda, son of John Singleton, Member of Parliament for the town. He went to school in Drogheda, graduated from the University of Dublin and was called to the Bar in 1707...
14 January 1742: Arthur Blennerhassett
Arthur Blennerhassett (1687–1758)
Arthur Blennerhassett was an Irish lawyer.He was elected to the Irish House of Commons as Member for Tralee in 1727. He also served as Prime Serjeant and was later raised to the bench.He was son of Robert Blennerhassett....
9 May 1743: Anthony Malone
24 January 1754: Eaton Stannard
6 October 1757: William Scott
William Scott (Irish lawyer)
William Scott was an Irish lawyer.Son of Rev. Gideon Scott and Jane McNeill, who shared the same mother as her half-brother, James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute. He was elected to the Irish House of Commons for the city of Londonderry in 1739, and appointed Prime Serjeant at the Irish Bar on 6 October...
27 July 1759: Thomas Tennison
11 December 1761: John Hely-Hutchinson
18 July 1774: James Dennis
James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton
James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton PC was an Irish politician and judge.-Background:Dennis was the son of John Dennis, a timber merchant of Kinsale, Co...
24 July 1777: Walter Hussey Burgh
Walter Hussey Burgh
- Background :He was born in Kildare, son of Ignatius Hussey of Donore House, near Naas, and his wife Elizabeth Burgh. Walter adopted the surname Burgh as a condition for inheriting an estate in Limerick from his uncle. In 1767 he married Anne de Burgh, sister of the statesman William de Burgh and...
14 June 1780: James Browne
1 June 1782: Walter Hussey Burgh
Walter Hussey Burgh
- Background :He was born in Kildare, son of Ignatius Hussey of Donore House, near Naas, and his wife Elizabeth Burgh. Walter adopted the surname Burgh as a condition for inheriting an estate in Limerick from his uncle. In 1767 he married Anne de Burgh, sister of the statesman William de Burgh and...

(again)
13 July 1782: Thomas Kelly
31 December 1783: John Scott
John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell
John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell PC KC SL , known as The Lord Earlsfort between 1784 and 1789 and as The Viscount Clonmell between 1789 and 1793, was an Irish barrister and judge...
21 May 1784: James Browne (again)
21 June 1787: James Fitzgerald
James FitzGerald
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28 January 1799: St George Daly
St George Daly
St George Daly was an Irish lawyer.He was a son of James Daly MP, of Carrownakelly and Dunsandle, by his second wife Catherine, daughter of Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet...
1 July 1801: Edmund Stanley
29 December 1802: Arthur Browne

First Serjeants, 1805-

25 July 1805: Arthur Moore
25 July 1816: William Johnson
28 October 1817: Henry Joy
Henry Joy (judge)
Henry Joy was an Irish judge. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1822, and Attorney-General for Ireland in 1827. He was made Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1831, a post he held until his death in 1838.-References:...
13 May 1822: Thomas Lefroy
April 1830: Thomas Goold
Thomas Goold
Thomas Goold , was a master of the court of chancery in Ireland.Goold was born of a wealthy Protestant family in Cork. Coming to Dublin about 1789 he proceeded to squander his patrimony, some 10,000l, in rioting and entertainments, at which Grattan, Saurin, Bushe, Plunkett, and others, are said to...
February 1832: Edward Pennefather
Edward Pennefather
Edward Pennefather PC, KC was an Irish judge.Pennefather was born in Tipperary, the second son of William Pennefather and his wife Ellen Moore. He went to school in Clonmel and graduated from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1795 and was King's Counsel by 1816...
23 May 1835: 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...
November 1842: Joseph Stock
Joseph Stock
Joseph Stock was an Irish Protestant churchman and writer, bishop of Killala and Achonry and afterwards bishop of Waterford and Lismore.-Life:...
June 1851: John Howley
John Howley
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27 February 1866: Richard Armstrong
25 October 1880: David Sherlock
20 May 1884: James Robinson
19 July 1885: Charles Hare Hemphill
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Second Serjeants, 1627-

23 May 1627: Sir Nathaniel Catelyn
14 April 1637: Sir Maurice Eustace
4 March 1661: Sir William Sandbach
6 April 1670: Robert Griffith
Robert Griffith
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10 May 1673: Henry Hene
Henry Hene
Henry Hene or Henn was an English-born judge who had a distinguished career in Ireland, becoming Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.- Background and early career :...
26 May 1674: Sir Richard Reynell, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Reynell, 1st Baronet
Sir Richard Reynell, 1st Baronet , was an English-born judge who had a distinguished career in Ireland, becoming Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland.- Background and early career :...
7 April 1680: Sir Richard Stephens
Richard Stephens
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(dismissed 1682)
24 October 1682: William Beckett
7 August 1683: Sir Richard Ryves
Richard Ryves
- Background :He was born in Dublin, eldest son of Charles Ryves, a Chancery official and his wife Jane Ogden; he was a grandson of Sir William Ryves, judge of the King's Bench in Ireland 1636-1648. The Ryves family were originally from Dorset, but Richard prided himself on being a true Dubliner.He...

(removed)
May 1687: Sir Henry Echlin
14 November 1690: Sir Richard Stephens
Richard Stephens
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(restored)
5 January 1691: Sir Richard Ryves
Richard Ryves
- Background :He was born in Dublin, eldest son of Charles Ryves, a Chancery official and his wife Jane Ogden; he was a grandson of Sir William Ryves, judge of the King's Bench in Ireland 1636-1648. The Ryves family were originally from Dorset, but Richard prided himself on being a true Dubliner.He...

(restored)
8 February 1692: Sir Thomas Packenham
13 January 1696: William Neave
1 December 1708: William Caulfield
William Caulfield
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(resigned)
14 August 1711: Morley Saunders
12 February 1712: John Cliffe
18 December 1714: Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Fitzgerald
Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was a poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin...
23 August 1716: John Witherington
23 December 1718: William Brodrick
5 January 1728: Robert Dixon
29 April 1731: Richard Bettesworth
31 March 1741: Robert Marshall
25 November 1757: Richard Malone
10 September 1759: Edmund Malone
14 January 1767: James Dennis
James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton
James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton PC was an Irish politician and judge.-Background:Dennis was the son of John Dennis, a timber merchant of Kinsale, Co...
19 July 1774: Maurice Coppinger
5 November 1777: Hugh Carleton
Hugh Carleton
Hugh Francis Carleton was New Zealand's first ever Member of Parliament.-New Zealand:He was a member of New Zealand's first, second, third, and fourth Parliaments, representing the Bay of Islands electorate from 1853 to 1870...
8 May 1779: Attiwell Wood
8 April 1784: James Fitzgerald
James FitzGerald
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27 June 1787: John Toler
17 August 1789: Joseph Hewett
30 July 1791: Henry Duquerry
10 December 1793: James Chatterton
23 April 1806: John Ball
3 December 1813: William McMahon
William McMahon
Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia...
4 March 1814: William Johnson
26 July 1816: Henry Joy
29 October 1817: Richard Jebb
Richard Jebb
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1 December 1818: Charles Burton
3 December 1820: Thomas Lefroy
13 May 1822: John Lloyd
19 April 1830: Francis Blackburne
Francis Blackburne
Francis Blackburne PC KS was an Irish judge and eventually became Lord Chancellor of Ireland.-Background:...
18 January 1831: Edward Pennefather
Edward Pennefather
Edward Pennefather PC, KC was an Irish judge.Pennefather was born in Tipperary, the second son of William Pennefather and his wife Ellen Moore. He went to school in Clonmel and graduated from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1795 and was King's Counsel by 1816...
13 February 1832: Michael O'Loghlen
27 January 1835: Joseph Devonshire Jackson
November 1841: Joseph Stock
Joseph Stock
Joseph Stock was an Irish Protestant churchman and writer, bishop of Killala and Achonry and afterwards bishop of Waterford and Lismore.-Life:...
November 1842: Richard B. Warren
July 1848: John Howley
John Howley
John Howley is an Australian painter whose core work is related to the Fantastic Art genre. - Life :Howley was born in Melbourne and studied at the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne under Murray Griffin. In 1954 and again in 1956 he exhibited with Group Four, which established his...
June 1851: James O'Brien
5 February 1858: Walter Berwick
1859: Gerald Fitzgibbon
Gerald Fitzgibbon
Gerald Fitzgibbon was an Irish barrister, independent Teachta Dála and one of the original judges of the Supreme Court of Ireland...
25 February 1860: James Anthony Lawson
James Anthony Lawson
James Anthony Lawson PC, QC , was an Irish academic, lawyer and judge.-Background and education:Lawson was born at Waterford, the eldest son of James Lawson, by Mary Anthony, daughter of Joseph Anthony, and was educated at the endowed school there...
21 February 1861: Edward Sullivan
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet PC , was an Irish lawyer, and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1865-1870 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also Solicitor General for Ireland, 1865-1866, Attorney General for Ireland, 1868, Master of the...
18 February 1865: Richard Armstrong
24 February 1866: Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bt
29 November 1877: David Sherlock
David Sherlock
David Sherlock is a British writer and was the life partner of Graham Chapman of Monty Python, whom he met in 1966 in Ibiza.-Biography:David Sherlock was the inspiration for many Monty Python sketches, including "Anne Elk", and was the originator of the Python sketch "Death of Mary Queen of Scots"...
25 October 1880: James Robinson
20 May 1884: Charles Hare Hemphill
19 July 1885: Peter O'Brien
Peter O'Brien
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14 July 1887: William Bennett Campion
incomplete

Third Serjeants, 1682-

24 July 1682: John Lyndon
19 February 1683: Sir Richard Ryves
Richard Ryves
- Background :He was born in Dublin, eldest son of Charles Ryves, a Chancery official and his wife Jane Ogden; he was a grandson of Sir William Ryves, judge of the King's Bench in Ireland 1636-1648. The Ryves family were originally from Dorset, but Richard prided himself on being a true Dubliner.He...
3 August 1683: Sir Henry Echlin
6 May 1687: Sir John Barnewall
March 1688: Sir Theobald Butler
Theobald Butler
Theobald Butler was the illegitimate son of Sir James Butler of Polestown and his wife Sabh Kavanagh. He was the elder brother of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and of Edmond Butler of Polestown.-Sources:...
5 January 1691: Alan Brodrick
Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton
Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton PC was an Irish lawyer and politician.-Background:He was the second son of Sir St John Brodrick of Ballyannan, near Midleton in County Cork, by his wife Alice , daughter of Laurence Clayton of Mallow, County Cork and sister of Colonel Randall Clayton M.P., of...
29 November 1711: John Cliffe
25 February 1712: John Staunton
14 December 1714: John Witherington
28 March 1726: Robert Jocelyn
Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn
Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn PC SL was an English-Irish politician and member of the Peerage of Ireland. He is best known for serving as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.-Early life:...
4 May 1727: John Bowes
John Bowes, 1st Baron Bowes
John Bowes, 1st Baron Bowes PC was an Irish peer and politician.-Life:He was born in London, son of Thomas Bowes, a merchant, and was called to the Bar in 1712. He came to Ireland as a member of the staff of Richard West, the Lord Chancellor in 1723...
October 1730: Henry Purdon
18 April 1737: Robert Marshall
21 January 1742: Philip Tisdall
Philip Tisdall
Philip Tisdall SL was an Irish lawyer and politician.He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dublin University from 1739 to 1776 and then for the city of Armagh from 1776 to his death...
28 October 1751: Richard Malone
24 November 1757: Marcus Paterson
Marcus Paterson
Marcus Paterson was an Irish politician, Solicitor-General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. He became the Member of Parliament for Ballynakill in 1756 and Lisburn in 1768. He was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1764 and became Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1770...
10 October 1764: James Dennis
James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton
James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton PC was an Irish politician and judge.-Background:Dennis was the son of John Dennis, a timber merchant of Kinsale, Co...
15 January 1767: Godfrey Lill
Godfrey Lill
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12 July 1770: Maurice Coppinger
20 July 1774: George Hamilton
15 May 1776: Hugh Carleton
Hugh Carleton
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6 November 1777: Attiwell Wood
8 May 1779: James Fitzgerald
James FitzGerald
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25 July 1782: Peter Metge
Peter Metge
Peter Metge was an Irish politician and judge, a colourful character noted for his fondness for dueling.- Biography :Hw was born at Athlumney, County Meath, second son of Peter Metge and Anne Lyons. He was a graduate of the University of Dublin where he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1763...
15 January 1784: John Toler
27 June 1787: Joseph Hewett
17 August 1789: Henry Duquerry
30 July 1791: James Chatterton
10 December 1793: Edmund Stanley
30 October 1801: Arthur Moore
25 July 1805: Charles Kendal Bushe
Charles Kendal Bushe
Charles Kendal Bushe , was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe", he was Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1805 to 1822 and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1822 to 1841....
25 October 1805: John Ball
23 April 1806: William McMahon
William McMahon
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4 December 1813: William Johnson
19 March 1814: Henry Joy
27 July 1816: Richard Jebb
Richard Jebb
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30 October 1817: Charles Burton
1 December 1818: Thomas Lefroy
13 February 1821: Thomas B. Vandeleur
13 May 1822: Robert Torrens
Robert Torrens
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13 July 1823: Thomas Goold
Thomas Goold
Thomas Goold , was a master of the court of chancery in Ireland.Goold was born of a wealthy Protestant family in Cork. Coming to Dublin about 1789 he proceeded to squander his patrimony, some 10,000l, in rioting and entertainments, at which Grattan, Saurin, Bushe, Plunkett, and others, are said to...
April 1830: Edward Pennefather
Edward Pennefather
Edward Pennefather PC, KC was an Irish judge.Pennefather was born in Tipperary, the second son of William Pennefather and his wife Ellen Moore. He went to school in Clonmel and graduated from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1795 and was King's Counsel by 1816...
18 January 1831: Michael O'Loghlen
7 February 1832: Louis Perrin
Louis Perrin
Louis Perrin PC was an Irish barrister, politician and judge.-Early life:Perrin was born in Waterford, the son of was Jean Baptiste Perrin ....
23 May 1835: Stephen Woulfe
Stephen Woulfe
Stephen Woulfe was an Irish barrister and Liberal politician. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1836 and as Attorney-General for Ireland in 1838; he became first Catholic to be Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.-Life:...
10 November 1836: Nicholas Ball
Nicholas Ball (Irish lawyer)
Nicholas Ball PC , KC was Irish barrister, judge and Liberal politician.He was the eldest son of John Ball, a silk mercer of Dublin, where he lived for many years in No 75, St Stephen's Green...
20 July 1838: William Curry
May 1840: Richard Moore
Richard Moore (Irish lawyer)
Richard Moore PC was an Irish lawyer and judge.Moore was Attorney-General for Ireland during part of Lord John Russell's Whig Government 1846-1852, holding that office from 16 July 1846 to 21 December 1847. He was then appointed as a judge of the Irish Queen's Bench and remained a judge until his...
August 1840: Joseph Stock
Joseph Stock
Joseph Stock was an Irish Protestant churchman and writer, bishop of Killala and Achonry and afterwards bishop of Waterford and Lismore.-Life:...
November 1841: Richard B. Warren
November 1842: Richard Keating
September 1843: John Howley
John Howley
John Howley is an Australian painter whose core work is related to the Fantastic Art genre. - Life :Howley was born in Melbourne and studied at the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne under Murray Griffin. In 1954 and again in 1956 he exhibited with Group Four, which established his...
July 1848: James O'Brien
June 1851: Jonathan Christian
Jonathan Christian
Jonathan Christian QC, PC , was an Irish judge. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1856 to 1858.-References:...
1855: Walter Berwick
5 February 1858: Rickard Deasy
Rickard Deasy
Rickard Deasy PC was an Irish lawyer and judge.Dease was elected as Member of Parliament for County County on 23 April 1855 in a by-election following Edmond Roche's elevation to the peerage. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1859 and then made Attorney-General for Ireland in 1860,...
1859: Gerald Fitzgibbon
Gerald Fitzgibbon
Gerald Fitzgibbon was an Irish barrister, independent Teachta Dála and one of the original judges of the Supreme Court of Ireland...
1859: Thomas O'Hagan
24 October 1860: Edward Sullivan
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet PC , was an Irish lawyer, and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1865-1870 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also Solicitor General for Ireland, 1865-1866, Attorney General for Ireland, 1868, Master of the...
21 February 1861: Richard Armstrong
18 February 1865: Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bt
24 February 1866: Charles Robert Barry
Charles Robert Barry
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12 January 1867: Richard Dowse
Richard Dowse
Richard Dowse PC was an Irish policitian and barrister. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Londonderry City |Londonderry at the 1868 general election. He was appointed a Baron of the Court of the Exchequer...
11 March 1870: David Sherlock
David Sherlock
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29 November 1877: James Robinson
25 October 1880: Denis Caulfield Heron
Denis Caulfield Heron
Denis Caulfield Heron LL.D QC was an Irish lawyer and Catholic Liberal MP for Tipperary.Born in Newry, County Down, he was educated at Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse....
30 May 1881: John O'Hagan
John O'Hagan
John O'Hagan was an Irish lawyer and writer.-Life:He was educated in the day-school of the Jesuit Fathers, Dublin, and in Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1842...
13 September 1881: Charles Hare Hemphill
26 May 1884: Peter O'Brien
Peter O'Brien
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18 July 1885: John George Gibson
John George Gibson
John George Gibson PC, QC , was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Gibson was the youngest son of William Gibson of Merrion Square, Dublin, and Rockforest, County Tipperary. Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, was his elder brother...
5 December 1885: William Bennett Campion
14 July 1887: Dodgson Hamilton Madden
Dodgson Hamilton Madden
Dodgson Hamilton Madden was an Irish Unionist Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party. He was the only son of the Reverend Hugh Hamilton Madden of Templemore, County Tipperary...
14 February 1888: Hewitt Poole Jellett
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