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 the Roman Catholics to equality of political rights, and may be said to have died while presenting their petition at Westminster 16 May, 1820. A memoir of his life and times nas been written by his son Henry.

The following works of Grattan have been published: Speeches in the Irish and in the Imperial Parliament (1822); Speeches, with a Commentary on his Career and Character by D. O. Madden (1845); Miscellaneous Works (1822).

His second son, Henry, born in 1789 and mentioned above, was also a member of the Inn. He sat in Parliament as representative of the city of Dublin from 1826 to 1830, and of Meath from 1831 to 1852. He died 16 July, 1859.

Admitted 24 January, 1834.

Seventh son of George Gray, of Aberdeen, where he was born. He began life as a solicitor. He was called to the Bar 26 Jan. 1838, was made a Queen's Counsel in 1863, and appointed Reader three years later. He became Solicitor to the Treasury in 1870, and in that capacity was the prosecutor of the Tichborne Claimant. He died 22 Jan. 1875.

He is known as the author of Gray's Country Attorney's Practice (1836); Gray's Country Solicitor's Practice (1837); and a book on Costs—all of them well known books in their time.

Admitted 19 March, 1750-1.

Third son of Alan Greatrakes of Youghal, co. Cork. He was born at Waterford about 1723. Though entered at the Middle Temple, he was called to the Bar in Ireland 1761, from which, however, he soon retired. He died 2 Aug. 1781 at Hungerford on his way to London. His name is now chiefly remembered as figuring on the long list of possible authors of the Letters of Junius, but with, apparently, no sort of claim.

Admitted 4 May, 1822.

Eldest son of Richard Gresley of the Middle Temple (and of Stowe House, Lichfield). His mother's name was Grote, and he was a cousin of Grote, the historian. He was educated at Westminster, where he was a King's scholar, and at Oxford, where he graduated 1823 in classical honours. Being prevented pursuing his studies for the Bar by defective eyesight, he took Holy Orders, and, after holding other cures, in 1857 settled at Boyne Hill, near Maidenhead, where he died 19 Nov. 1876.

His writings, all of them of a theological character, and in support of English High Church views, are too numerous for detail here. The most popular of them, the stories of a religious and social character, he published in the Englishman's Library, which he edited in conjunction with Edward Churton (1840—1846), the best known perhaps being Church-Clavering, or the Schoolmaster, in which he developed his views on education. His work on The Scepticism of the Nineteenth Century, published in 1879, has prefixed a Life of the Author by S. C. Austen.