Serjeant-at-law (Ireland)

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This is a list (presently incomplete) of lawyers who held the rank of serjeant-at-law at the Irish Bar.

The first recorded serjeant was Roger Owen, who was appointed c.1261, although the term itself is not found until 1388. In the early years an appointment might be temporary or cover only a part of the country.

In contrast to England, for many years there was only one Serjeant-at-Law in Ireland, who was known as the King’s Serjeant or simply Serjeant. In 1627 another was appointed, and they were known as the Prime Serjeant and Second Serjeant. In 1682 a Third Serjeant was appointed. In 1805 the Prime Serjeant became known as First Serjeant.

The serjeants-at-law ranked ahead of the Attorney-General for Ireland and the Solicitor-General for Ireland until 1805, when the law officers took precedence.[1]

No serjeants were appointed after 1919 and on the establishment of the Irish Free State the rank ceased to exist. The last surviving serjeant, Alexander Sullivan, moved to England where he practiced at the English Bar, and by courtesy was always addressed as Serjeant Sullivan.

King’s Serjeants, 1261-1627

Prime Serjeants, 1627-1805

First Serjeants, 1805-

  • 25 July 1805: Arthur Moore[3]
  • 25 July 1816: William Johnson
  • 28 October 1817: Henry Joy
  • 13 May 1822: Thomas Lefroy
  • April 1830: Thomas Goold
  • February 1832: Edward Pennefather
  • 23 May 1835: Richard Wilson Greene
  • November 1842: Joseph Stock
  • June 1851: John Howley
  • 27 February 1866: Richard Armstrong
  • 25 October 1880: David Sherlock
  • 20 May 1884: James Robinson
  • 19 July 1885: Charles Hare Hemphill[4]
  • 17 November 1892: William Bennet Campion
  • 5 December 1907 : Charles Andrew O'Connor
  • 14 January 1910  : John Francis Moriarty
  • 5 July 1913: Charles Louis Matheson
  • 29 October 1919: Alexander Martin Sullivan - the last Irish serjeant[5]

Second Serjeants, 1627-

  • 23 May 1627: Sir Nathaniel Catelyn
  • 14 April 1637: Sir Maurice Eustace
  • 4 March 1661: Sir William Sambach
  • 6 April 1670: Robert Griffith
  • 10 May 1673: Henry Hene
  • 26 May 1674: Sir Richard Reynell, 1st Baronet
  • 7 April 1680: Sir Richard Stephens (judge) (dismissed 1682)
  • 24 October 1682: William Beckett
  • 7 August 1683: Sir Richard Ryves (removed)
  • May 1687: Sir Henry Echlin
  • 14 November 1690: Sir Richard Stephens (restored)
  • 5 January 1691: Sir Richard Ryves (restored)
  • 8 February 1692: Sir Thomas Packenham
  • 13 January 1696: William Neave
  • 1 December 1708: William Caulfeild (resigned)
  • 14 August 1711: Morley Saunders[2]
  • 12 February 1712: John Cliffe
  • 18 December 1714: Robert Fitzgerald
  • 23 August 1716: John Witherington
  • 23 December 1718: William Brodrick
  • 5 January 1728: Robert Dixon
  • 29 April 1731: Richard Bettesworth
  • 31 March 1741: Robert Marshall
  • 25 November 1757: Richard Malone
  • 10 September 1759: Edmund Malone
  • 14 January 1767: James Dennis
  • 19 July 1774: Maurice Coppinger
  • 5 November 1777: Hugh Carleton
  • 8 May 1779: Attiwell Wood
  • 8 April 1784: James Fitzgerald
  • 27 June 1787: John Toler
  • 17 August 1789: Joseph Hewett
  • 30 July 1791: Henry Duquerry
  • 10 December 1793: James Chatterton
  • 23 April 1806: John Ball[3]
  • 3 December 1813: William MacMahon
  • 4 March 1814: William Johnson
  • 26 July 1816: Henry Joy
  • 29 October 1817: Richard Jebb
  • 1 December 1818: Charles Burton
  • 3 December 1820: Thomas Lefroy
  • 13 May 1822: John Lloyd
  • 19 April 1830: Francis Blackburne
  • 18 January 1831: Edward Pennefather
  • 13 February 1832: Michael O'Loghlen
  • 27 January 1835: Joseph Devonshire Jackson
  • November 1841: Joseph Stock
  • November 1842: Richard B. Warren
  • July 1848: John Howley
  • June 1851: James O'Brien
  • 5 February 1858: Walter Berwick
  • 1859: Gerald Fitzgibbon
  • 25 February 1860: James Anthony Lawson
  • 21 February 1861: Edward Sullivan
  • 18 February 1865: Richard Armstrong
  • 24 February 1866: Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Bt
  • 29 November 1877: David Sherlock
  • 25 October 1880: James Robinson
  • 20 May 1884: Charles Hare Hemphill
  • 19 July 1885: Peter O'Brien
  • 14 July 1887: William Bennett Campion[4]
  • 17 November 1892: Hewitt Poole Jellett
  • 18 July 1911: Ignatius O'Brien, 1st Baron Shandon
  • 9 December 1911: Thomas Molony
  • 20 July 1912: Charles Louis Matheson
  • 5 July 1913: Alexander Martin Sullivan[5]
  • 229 October 1919: George McSweeney

Third Serjeants, 1682-

References

  • John Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, 3rd edition, London 1894 (reprinted Bath 1969)
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Haydn, p. 590
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Haydn, p. 591
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Haydn, p. 592
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Haydn, p. 593
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Ronan Keane, ‘Sullivan, Alexander Martin (1871–1959)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/36369, accessed 23 Sept 2012]
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