George Vaughan Hart (lawyer)

George Vaughan Hart, KC (5 June 1841 – 13 December 1912) was an Anglo-Irish academic who served as Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law at Trinity College, Dublin from 1890 to 1909.^[1]

Life

Hart was born on 5 June 1841 to Sir Andrew S. Hart, sometime vice-provost of Trinity College, Dublin, and his wife Frances MacDougall, the daughter of Henry MacDougall QC, of Dublin. He was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin.^[2][3] He was the brother of the explorer and botanist Henry Chichester Hart. He was also the great-nephew of William Allman, a Professor of Botany at Trinity College, Dublin and the first cousin once removed of George Johnston Allman through his maternal grandmother Frances Allman.^[4][5]

He was called to the Irish Bar in 1865. He was King's Inns Professor of Law of Personal Property from 1880-1886. He was appointed Chief Examiner of Titles, Land Judges, Dublin in 1890. His career culminated in his post as Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law at TCD from 1890-1909.^[6][7]

Family

On 12 September 1873, he married Mary Elizabeth Hone, daughter of Addison Hone, a scion of the Hone family. They had seven children:

• Ethel Vaughan Hart (1875-1964). She married Sir Anthony Babington on 5 September 1907.^[8][9]
• George Vaughan Hart (31 August 1877 – 8 September 1928).^[10]
• Norah Searle Hart (3 October 1879 – 1965).^[11]
• Hilda Chichester Hart (31 December 1882 – 1967).^[12]
• Tristram Beresford Hart (6 March 1884 – 1963). He married Hon. Vivian Parker, daughter of Robert Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington.^[13][14]
• William Hume Hart (6 April 1885-d. unknown).^[15]
• Ruth Hart (20 December 1866 – 1977). She married Rt. Hon. Andrew Jameson.^[16][17]

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