Francis Blackburne

Francis Blackburne

Francis Blackburne (November 11, 1782September 17, 1867), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was born at Great Footstown, County Meath, Ireland. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, he was called to the English bar in 1805, and practised with great success on the home circuit.

Called to the Irish bar in 1822, he administered the Insurrection Act in Limerick for two years, effectually restoring order in the district. In 1826 he became a serjeant-at-law, and in 1830, and again, in 1841, was Attorney-General for Ireland. In 1842 he became Master of the Rolls in Ireland, in 1846 Chief-Justice of the Queen's Bench and in 1852 (and again in 1866) Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In 1856 he was made a Lord Justice of Appeal in Ireland.

He is remembered as having prosecuted Daniel O'Connell and presided at the trial of William Smith O'Brien.

"From the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"


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