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Admitted 14 August, 1765.

Eldest son of Hugh Duigenan (O'Duibhgeannain), of Dublin. He was intended for the priesthood, but became a Protestant, and gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took his degrees. He was called to the Irish Bar 1767. He became a King's Counsel and a Bencher of King's Inns in 1784, and Advocate-General of the High Court of Admiralty the following year. His staunch protestantism procured him favour, and he was sworn in of the Privy Council and appointed Professor of Civil Law at Dublin. He was returned to Parliament for Armagh, and in the United Parliament strenuously opposed Catholic Emancipation. He died at Westminster 11 April, 1816.

Admitted 11 June, 1774.

Second son of Thomas Dundas of Fingask, N.B. He was called to the Bar 13 June, 1777, but devoted himself to politics, and represented Berkshire in ten successive Parliaments from 1794 to 1832, and in 1802 was nominated for Speaker. He was raised to the peerage as Lord Amesbury two months before his death, 7 July, 1832.

Admitted 8 May, 1752.

Only son of John Dunning of Ashburton, Devonshire, where he was born 18 Oct. 1731. After his call to the Bar, 2 July, 1756, his progress was at first slow, but in 1762 he was employed in the defence of the East India Company against the charges of the Dutch. The memorial he drew up on the occasion was deemed a masterpiece of language and reasoning, and brought him at once emolument and fame. In the following year he added to his reputation by ' his conduct of the case of Combe v. Pitt, and in his defence of Wilkes and the question of general warrants. In 1766 he was appointed Recorder of Bristol, and in 1768 Solicitor-General. He was Reader at the Inn in 1776, and three years later was elected Treasurer. In 1782 he accepted the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and was advanced to the peerage with the title of Lord Ashburton of Ashburton. He died Aug. 18, 1783.

Lord Ashburton's Memorial or Defence, of the United Company of Merchants was printed and published in 1762, and some letters to the Proprietors of East India Stock, occasioned by Lord Clive's letter on his Jaghire, 1764. Lord Ashburton was at one time thought to be the author of the Letters of Junius.

Admitted 7 February, 1810.

Third son of William Duppa of Leominster, Hereford. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 6 Nov. 1813, and called to the Bar 26 Nov. of the same year. He graduated in Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1814, and was elected F.S.A. He died 11 July, 1831.

He wrote largely on artistic subjects and on Botany. Amongst his best known works are The Life and Literary Works of Michael Angela (1806); The Elements of Botany (1809); a Life of Raffaele (1816), and ''An account of Br. Johnson's Journey into North Wales'' (1816).