Francis Bernard (lawyer)

Francis Bernard SL (1663 – 30 June 1731)[1] was an Irish lawyer and politician.

He was the son of Francis Bernard of Castle Mahon.[2] Bernard sat as Member of Parliament (MP) in the Irish House of Commons. He represented Clonakilty between 1692 and 1695[1] and subsequently Bandonbridge between 1695 and 1727.[1] He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1711,[3] a post he held until 1714, and prime Serjeant-at-Law in 1724.[3] Two years later he became a Judge on the Irish Court of Common Pleas.[4]

In 1693, Bernard married Alice Ludlow, daughter of Stephen Ludlow.[5] They had a daughter and several sons.[5] His grandson James was the ancestor of the Earls of Bandon.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/irelandcommons.htm. Retrieved 28 March 2009. 
  2. ^ "ThePeerage - Francis Bernard". http://www.thepeerage.com/p27152.htm#i271517. Retrieved 28 March 2009. 
  3. ^ a b Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. pp. 74. 
  4. ^ Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personal of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. pp. 455. 
  5. ^ a b Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage (6th ed.). London: Saunder and Otley. pp. 37. 
  6. ^ "ThePeerage - James Bernard". http://www.thepeerage.com/p10511.htm#i105102. Retrieved 28 March 2009. 
Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Patriot Parliament		 Member of Parliament for Clonakilty
1692 – 1695
With: Percy Freke		 Succeeded by
Bryan Townsend
Percy Freke
Preceded by
Sir William Moore, 2nd Bt
Edward Riggs		 Member of Parliament for Bandonbridge
1695 – 1727
With: Edward Riggs 1695–1703
Richard Gorges 1703–1713
Arthur Bernard 1713–1715
Martin Bladen 1715–1727		 Succeeded by
George Freke
Stephen Bernard
Legal offices
Preceded by
William Whitshed		 Solicitor-General for Ireland
1711 – 1714		 Succeeded by
John Rogerson