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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 67 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VISCOUNT BARRY YELVERTON AVONMORE (1i36-18o5)  , Irish judge, was born in 1736 . He was the eldest son of Frank Yelverton of
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Blackwater, Co . Cork . Educated at Trinity College,
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Dublin, he was for some years an assistant master under Andrew Buck in the Hibernian Academy . In 1761 he married
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Miss Mary
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Nugent, a lady of some fortune, and was then enabled to read for the bar . He was called in 1764, his success was rapid, and he took
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silk eight years afterwards . He sat in the Irish parliament as member successively for the boroughs of
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Donegal and
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Carrickfergus, becoming attorney-general in 1782, but was elevated to the bench as chief baron of the
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exchequer in 1783 . He was created (Irish) Baron Avonmore in 1795, and in 1800 (Irish) viscount . Among his colleagues at the Irish bar Yelverton was a popular and charming companion . Of insignificant appearance, he owed his early successes to his remarkable eloquence, which made a
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great impression on his contemporaries; as a judge, he was inclined to take the view of the advocate rather than that of the impartial lawyer . He gave his support to Grattan and the Whigs during the greater
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part of his
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parliamentary career, but in his latter days became identified with the court party and voted for the union, for which his viscounty was a
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reward . He had three sons and one daughter, and the title has descended in the
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family .

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