Life
1782-1867; ed. TCD, King’s Inns, Dublin, and Lincoln’s Inns,
London; bar 1805; joined home circuit; upheld laws of eviction and rights
of property, and administered Insurrection Act then renewed, on the occasion
of the Stradbroke estate eviction of almost 50 families on sub-tenanted
holdings, Feb. 1822; Serjeant, 1826; Attorney Gen. for Ireland, 1830-34;
chief justice Queen’s bench, 1846; lord chancellor of Ireland, 1852;
resigned same year; commissioner of national education, 1852; lord justice
of appeal, 1856; re-appt. lord chancellor, resigned again, 1866; vice-chanc.
Dublin University (TCD). DNB
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Works
Considerations on the Present State of the Controversy between Protestants
and Papists of Great Britain and Ireland: The Subject of Discussion delivered
to the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland in 1765 (London 1768).
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Criticism
A. R. Hart, A History of the King’s Serjeants at Law in Dublin:
Honour Rather Than Advantage (Dublin: Four Courts 2000), 224pp; Irish Catholic Chronicle, and People’s News of the Week [Dublin] (Sat., 21 Sept. 1867)
Notes
Cathach Books (Catalogue No. 12) lists Francis Blackburn [sic],
Considerations on the Present State of the Controversy between Protestants
and Papists of Great Britain and Ireland. The Subject of Discussion delivered
to the clergy of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland in 1765 (London 1768) [uncut].
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)