John George (Solicitor General)

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John George (1804 - 15 December 1871) was an Irish politician and judge.

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, from which he graduated with an MA in 1826, he became a barrister at the King's Inns in the same year and at Gray's Inn in 1827. He was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1844.

He served as a Member of Parliament for County Wexford from 1852-7 and from 1859-66. He served in government as Solicitor-General for Ireland under Lord Derby from June 1859.

He was appointed an Irish Privy Counsellor and a judge of Queen's Bench, in 1866.

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G. C. Boase, "George, John (1804–1871)", rev. Sinéad Agnew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 9 Dec 2006