Charles Kendal Bushe

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Charles Kendal Bushe
Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland
In office
1822–1841
Solicitor-General for Ireland
In office
1805–1822
Personal details
Born1767
Died10 July 1843

Charles Kendal Bushe (1767 – 10 July 1843), was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe" because of his eloquence,

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1822 to 1841.[2]

Background and education

Bushe was born at Kilmurry House, near

called to the Bar in 1790.[2]

Legal and judicial career

Bushe was a member of the

Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland (although only after William Saurin, the equally long-serving Attorney-General, had refused the position). He retired in 1841.[2]

As an advocate "silver-tongued Bushe" was legendary for his eloquence,

Catholic Emancipation, he prosecuted members of the Catholic Association for sedition, merely for advocating the same cause.[5]

In Dublin, he was a member of Daly's Club.[6]

Family

Bushe in 1793 married Anne (Nancy) Crampton (died 1857), daughter of John Crampton of Dublin and Anne Verner, and sister of Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. They had ten children including John, Charles, Arthur, Charlotte, Anna Maria, Katherine and Henrietta.[7]

His daughter Charlotte married

Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, and David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore.[2]

His son John Bushe married Louisa Hare, daughter of William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, and his first wife, Mary Wrixon, only daughter of Henry Wrixon.[7]

His son Charles, a Church of Ireland clergyman who became rector of Castlehaven, County Cork, was by his second wife Emmeline Coghill the father of another eminent barrister, Seymour Coghill Bushe.

His daughter Anna Maria was the second wife of Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, 3rd Baronet: her stepdaughter Emmeline married Anna Maria's brother Charles as his second wife.[7]

His daughter Katherine married Michael Fox, son of his judicial colleague Luke Fox and Anne Annesley, a niece of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely.

Descendants

Dunbar Plunket Barton
, a leading Irish High Court judge of the early 1900s, was descended from Bushe.

Seymour Coghill Bushe (1853-1922) was a leading

Coghill Baronets and his first wife Sophia Dodson.[1] He married Lady Kathleen Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt and Clementina Fleeming
, and the defendant in Brooke v. Brooke, after her divorce from her first husband, Gerald Brooke. She died in 1939.

Bushe was the great-grandfather of the writing duo Somerville and Ross, who were second cousins.

References

  1. ^ a b c Healy, Maurice The Old Muster Circuit Michael Joseph Ltd. 1939
  2. ^ a b c d e f Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926 Vol. 2 p.342
  3. Thomas Ulick Sadleir
    p. 120: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. ^ Geoghegan, Patrick M. Liberator-the life and death of Daniel O'Connell Gill and Macmillan Dublin 2010 p.176
  5. ^ a b c Ball pp.260-1
  6. ^ T. H. S. Escott, Club Makers and Club Members (1913), pp. 329–333
  7. ^ a b c Burke Landed Gentry of Ireland London 1912
Parliament of Ireland
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Member of Parliament for Callan
1796–1799
With: William Meeke 1796–1797
Patrick Welch
1797–1799 		Succeeded by
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Member of Parliament for Donegal Borough
1799–1801
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