Charles Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill

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Charles Hare Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill, PC QC (1822 – 4 March 1908), was an Irish politician and barrister.

Born in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, Hemphill was the son of son of John Hemphill. He was made a Queen's Counsel (QC) shortly before being appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1892, a post he held until 1895. He then sat as Member of Parliament for North Tyrone from 1895 to 1906, after which he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Hemphill, of Rathkenny and of Cashel in the County of Tipperary.

Lord Hemphill married Augusta Mary, daughter of Major the Hon. Sir Francis Charles Stanhope, in 1849. He died in March 1908 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son Stanhope Charles John Hemphill.

Hemphill was a cousin of John Hemphill, a Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, and a United States Senator, whose father was the Rev. John Hemphill from County Tyrone.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton	Member of Parliament for North Tyrone 1895–1906	Succeeded by William Huston Dodd
Political offices
Preceded by Edward Carson	Solicitor General for Ireland 1892–1895	Succeeded by William Kenney
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Hemphill 1906–1908	Succeeded by Stanhope Hemphill

[edit] References

• New Dictionary of National Biography
• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page