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1ST VISCOUNT BARRY YELVERTON AVONMORE...

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

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