is a list of lawyers who held the rank of serjeant-at-law at the Bar of Ireland. The first recorded serjeant was Roger Owen, who was appointed between...
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A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law...
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A serjeant-at-arms or sergeant-at-arms is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings. The word...
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Rifles Serjeant-at-arms, an officer appointed to keep order during meetings Serjeant-at-law, an obsolete class of barrister in England and Ireland Craig...
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Edward Somerton (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
1461) was an Irish barrister and judge who held the offices of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) and the Court...
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William of Bardfield (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
England before moving to Ireland, where he was successively Serjeant-at-law (Ireland), justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland), and justice of the...
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A. M. Sullivan (barrister) (redirect from A M Sullivan (Serjeant at law))
the last barrister in either Ireland or England to hold the rank of serjeant-at-law, hence his nickname The Last Serjeant. A younger son of A M Sullivan...
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was an Irish politician, barrister and judge. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Belfast, and held office as Third Serjeant-at-law and later...
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was an Irish landowner, barrister and politician. He sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Cavan, and was the Irish Prime Serjeant-at-law. Unusually...
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Eaton Stannard (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
politician and lawyer in 18th-century Ireland. He was a popular Recorder of Dublin, a very unpopular serjeant-at-law (Ireland), and an experienced parliamentarian...
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Maurice Coppinger (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
1802) was an Irish barrister and politician, who sat in the Irish House of Commons for many years, and held the office of King's Serjeant. His name is...
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Thomas Pakenham (Augher MP) (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
was an Irish barrister and politician: he sat in the Irish House of Commons as MP for Augher and held the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). He was...
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John Cliffe (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
speak for the Government, and held the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). He was probably born at Dungulf Castle, near Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford...
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Thomas Langlois Lefroy (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
Serjeant expresses his hostility to the proposed law by declaring that he is averse to the removal of ancient landmarks. Now, if the saintly Serjeant...
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an Irish politician, law officer and judge of the early nineteenth century. He sat in the Irish House of Commons, served as Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and...
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Nathaniel Catelyn (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
of Second Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). The reason for this step is unclear but it may have been due to pressure of work on the existing Law Officers: the...
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David Sherlock (MP) (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
appointed Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). He became Third Serjeant in 1870, Second Serjeant in 1877 and First Serjeant in 1880. He was First Serjeant until his...
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Thomas Snetterby (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
Little else is known of him until 1447 when he was appointed Serjeant-at-law (Ireland), "so long as he was of good behaviour". He was granted the same...
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Richard Finglas (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
he served as deputy to the Solicitor General for Ireland. He was appointed Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) in 1554. Some sources state that he was appointed...
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John Tirel (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
judge and statesman in fourteenth-century Ireland who held office as Serjeant-at-law and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. He was the son of Warin...
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William Neave (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
William Neave (c.1662-1713) was an Irish barrister, politician and law officer. He held the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) and in that capacity played...
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Hewitt Poole Jellett (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
was an Irish barrister and judge. He is notable for holding the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) for more than twenty years until his death at the age...
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John Brereton (lawyer) (redirect from John Brereton (Irish lawyer))
Brereton (1576–1629) was an English-born lawyer who held office in Ireland as Serjeant-at-law. He was born in Ashley, Cheshire, one of the eight sons of George...
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The Attorney General was initially junior to the serjeant-at-law, but since the titles King's Serjeant and King's Attorney were often used interchangeably...
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Joseph Hewitt (judge) (redirect from Joseph Hewitt (Irish judge))
to the Irish Bar in 1776. He was appointed cursitor (clerk) of the Court of Chancery (Ireland) in 1782. He became Third Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) in 1787...
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Malone (1706–1759) was an Irish barrister and politician. He held the office of Serjeant-at-law and sat for many years in the Irish House of Commons as member...
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John Howley (lawyer) (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
John Bourke Howley (1789-1866) was an Irish barrister and Law Officer who held office as Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) for many years. Despite his obvious...
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Richard Stephens (judge) (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
hampered by his unorthodox religious and political views. He became Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) under King Charles II, but was dismissed from office after only...
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Nicholas Kerdiffe (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
1600. He became Serjeant-at-law in 1601, with a salary of 27 pounds and 6 shillings per annum. Since the Serjeant was then the senior Law Officer, ranking...
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Arthur Corye (category Serjeants-at-law (Ireland))
Arthur Corye (or Curry; died 1597) was an Irish barrister who held office as Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) from 1594 until his death, and had a bad reputation...
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