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unusual facts about Chancellor of Ireland



Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

1573-1581 - Sir William Gerard, a layman and also Chancellor of Ireland 1576–1581 (a contemporary wrote that he "confessed how greatly he had been tormented in conscience with keeping the deanery"


see also

Fitzsimon

Walter Fitzsimon (died 1511), Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland

John Fitzgibbon

John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare (1748–1802), Attorney-General and Lord Chancellor of Ireland

St Patrick's College, Dublin

Lord Lifford (Lord Chancellor of Ireland former MP for Coventry).

Thomas de Everdon

He was Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland in 1374 and acted regularly as Deputy to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, particularly during the tenure of Thomas Cranley who was frequently unable to act through age, ill health or pressure of business.

Thomas Manners

Thomas Manners-Sutton, 1st Baron Manners (1756–1842), British lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland

William Plunkett

William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket (1764 – 1854), Irish politician and lawyer who eventually became Lord Chancellor of Ireland