Hedges Eyre Chatterton
Hedges Eyre Chatterton | |
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Michael Morris | |
| Succeeded by | Robert Warren |
| Member of Parliament for Dublin University | |
| In office 1867–1867 Serving with Anthony Lefroy | |
| Preceded by |
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| Succeeded by |
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| Attorney-General for Ireland | |
| In office 1867–1867 | |
| Preceded by | Michael Morris |
| Succeeded by | Robert Warren |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 July 1819 Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 30 August 1910 (aged 91) |
| Political party | Conservative |
Hedges Eyre Chatterton (5 July 1819 – 30 August 1910) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Ireland.
Biography
He was born in
He married firstly Mary Halloran of Cloyne in 1845; she died in 1901. In the year of his retirement, he remarried Florence Henrietta Gore, widow of Edward Croker.[1] He had no children. James Joyce remarks in Ulysses that his second marriage at the age of 85 infuriated his nephew, who had been waiting patiently for years to inherit his money.
Reputation
Despite his many years of service on the Bench, Chatterton does not seem to have been highly regarded as a judge. On his retirement the Bar paid tribute to his good qualities but added several qualifications: "there might have been on the Bench lawyers more profound, reasoners more acute..."
Renaming Sackville Street
Chatterton became involved in controversy in 1885, over the first attempt to rename
References
- ^ a b c Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.2 p.367
- Sadlier, T.U. p147: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
- ^ Hogan, Daire "Arrows too sharply pointed-the relations of Lord Justice Christian and Lord O'Hagan 1868–1874" published in The Common Law Tradition Irish Academic Press Dublin 1990 p.61
- ^ Hogan, p.69
- ^ Hogan, p.70
- ^ Hogan, p.72
- ^ Osborough, W.N. (1996). Law and the Emergence of Modern Dublin. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
- ^ Anderson v. Dublin Corporation (1885) 15 L.R.Ir. 450
- ^ Osborough 1996, p. 49.
- Who's Who of British members of parliament: Vol. I 1832–1885, edited by Michael Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs