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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 857 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:WILLIAM CONYNGHAM See also:PLUNKET PLUNKET (1764—1854)  , Irish lawyer, orator and statesman, was See also:born in the See also:county of See also:Fermanagh in See also:July 1764.1 He was educated first by his See also:father, a Presbyterian See also:minister of considerable ability and reputation, and in 1779 he became a student of Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin . He was conspicuous as the acknowledged See also:leader of the See also:Historical Society, the debating See also:club of Trinity College, then full of See also:young men of remarkable promise . Having entered See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1784, See also:Plunket was called to the Irish See also:bar in 1787 . He gradually obtained a considerable practice in See also:equity; and was made a See also:king's counsel in 1797 . ' The Irish Plunkets are distinguished by the spelling of the name from the Plunketts of the families of the barons Dunsany (cr . 1439) and the earls of Fingall (cr . 1628), though the earlier members of these houses are often given the spelling of Plunket . Rathmore . See also:William See also:Lee Plunket, 5th See also:baron (b . 1864), was See also:governor of New See also:Zealand from 1904 to 1910 .

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