Louis Perrin

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Louis Perrin

PC (15 February 1782 – 7 December 1864) was an Irish barrister
, politician and judge.

Early life

Perrin was born in

tutor
to wealthy Irish families.

Louis Perrin was educated at the diocesan school at

elected a Scholar there in 1799, and graduated B.A. in 1801. At the trial of his fellow student, Robert Emmet
, in 1803, when the sentence of death was pronounced, Perrin rushed forward in the court and warmly embraced the prisoner.

He devoted himself with great energy to the study of

called to the bar
, and was soon much employed in cases where penalties for breaches of the revenue laws were sought to be enforced.

When Watty Cox, the proprietor and publisher of Cox's Magazine was prosecuted by the government for a

libel
in 1811, O'Connell, Burke, Bethel, and Perrin were employed for the defence; but the case was practically conducted by the junior, who showed marked ability in the matter.

He was also junior counsel, in 1811, in the prosecution of Sheridan, Kirwan, and the Roman Catholic delegates for violating the Convention Act.

In 1832, he became a bencher of

King's Inns, Dublin
.

Politics

He was a

Sir Robert Harty, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Dublin City
.

Being unseated in August, he was returned to the

Tory
member.

At the

public houses
at eleven o'clock at night.

From 7 February 1832 to February 1835, he was

Marquis of Normanby, he succeeded Francis Blackburne as Attorney-General. While a serjeant he presided over the inquiry into the old Irish corporations, and on his report the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840
was passed.

After the death of

petty sessions
.

He died at his residence Knockdromin House, near Rush, on 7 December 1864, and was buried at Lusk, on 10 December. Knockdromin was destroyed in an arson attack in 2011.

Family

He married, in April 1815, Hester Connor Stewart, daughter of the Rev. Abraham Augustus Stewart, chaplain to the

Blarney, County Cork; William, chief registrar of the Irish Court of Bankruptcy (d 1892); Charles, major of the 66th foot from 1865; Mark, registrar of judgments in Ireland; and John, of Fortfield House, Terenure
, father of the well-known painter Mary Perrin.

References

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain"Perrin, Louis". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  • Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for
Sir Robert Harty, Bt
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Monaghan
18321835
With: Cadwallader Blayney to 1834
Henry Westenra May–July 1834
Edward Lucas from July 1834
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Cashel
January 1835September 1835
Succeeded by
Legal offices
Vacant
Title last held by
Francis Blackburne
Attorney-General for Ireland
April 1835 – August 1835
Succeeded by
Michael O'Loghlen