James Anthony Lawson
James Anthony Lawson,
QC
(1817–1887) was an Irish academic, lawyer and judge.
Background and education
Lawson was born in
Whately professor of political economy
from 1840 to 1845.
Legal and judicial career
Lawson was called to the
Queen's Counsel, elected bencher of King's Inns, Dublin, 1861, and acted as Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1858 to 1859. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in February 1861 and in 1865 Attorney-General for Ireland, when he was sworn a member of the Irish privy council
.
As attorney-general he had in to grapple with the
Liberals. However, he was defeated in the general election of December 1868. He was appointed fourth justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Ireland, in December 1868 and held the post till June 1882, when he was transferred to the Queen's Bench
division.
During the
privy councillor in England on 18 May 1870, acted as a commissioner for the Great Seal of Ireland from March to December 1874, was a vice-president of the Dublin Statistical Society and became a DCL of Oxford
in 1884.
Personal life
Lawson died at Shankill, near Dublin, on 10 August 1887. In 1842, he married Jane Merrick, eldest daughter of Samuel Merrick of Cork, with whom he had a son, James. In the 1860s he built a Victorian gothic mansion by the sea in Shankill called Clontra, which was designed by Deane & Woodward.
Publications
- ‘Five Lectures on Political Economy,’ 1844.
- ‘Duties and Obligations involved in Mercantile Relations. A lecture,’ 1855.
- ‘Speech at the Election for Members to serve in Parliament for the University of Dublin,’ 1857. With H. Connor he compiled
- ‘Reports of Cases in High Court of Chancery of Ireland during the time of Lord Chancellor Sugden,’ 1865.
- 'Hymni Usitati Latine Redditi, with Other Verses'. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1883.
- 'A Century of Irish Government' [Manuscript life of Sir Thomas Larcom, Bart], Edinburgh Review, no. 336, 1886.
Arms
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References
- ^ Debrett's Judicial Bench. 1869.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Lawson, James Anthony". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
