Life
1831-1920; lord chf. baron of Exchequer in Ireland; ed. TCD; bar, 1853;
QC, 1865; sol-gen. for Ireland, 1872; attorney gen, 1872; chief baron,
1874-1916; privy councillor, Ireland, 1872; privy councillor, England,
1892; educationalist. ADD, director of Palles Commission on Intermediate
Education [see Hyde, Douglas, RX] DNB DIB
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Notes
Portrait: Christopher Palles, 1831-1920 Lawyer, by J. B. Yeats,
chalk, inscribed. ‘Chf. Baron Palles in a tram Dublin Oct 1906’;
see Anne Crookshank, ed., Irish Portraits Exhibition [Catalogue]
(Ulster Museum 1965)
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