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FRANCIS BLACKBURNE (1782-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 20 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FRANCIS See also:BLACKBURNE (1782-1867)  , See also:lord See also:chancellor of See also:Ireland, was See also:born at See also:Great Footstown, Co . See also:Meath, Ireland, on the 11th of See also:November 1782 . Educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, he was called to the See also:English See also:bar in 18os, and practised with great success on the See also:home See also:circuit . Called to the Irish bar in 1822, he vigorously administered the Insurrection See also:Act in See also:Limerick for two years, effectually restoring See also:order in the See also:district . In 1826 he became a See also:serjeant-at-See also:law, and in 1830, and again, in 1841, was See also:attorney-See also:general for Ireland . In 1842 he became See also:master of the rolls in Ireland, in 1846 See also:chief-See also:justice of the See also:queen's See also:bench, and in 1852 (and again in 1866) lord chancellor of Ireland . In 1856 he was made a lord justice of See also:appeal in Ireland . He is remembered as having prosecuted O'Connell and presided at the trial of See also:Smith O'Brien . He died on the 17th of See also:September x867 .

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