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Admitted 16 January, 1837.

Eldest son of the Right Hon. (q.v.), of Merrion Square, Dublin, where he was born 20 Sept. 1819. He graduated at Dublin in 1840, and was called to the Irish Bar the same year. He entered Parliament for Clare in 1863, and became Judge-Advocate General, and a member of the Privy Council in 1868. He was instrumental in carrying the Bill for enabling Roman Catholics to attain the position of Lord Chancellor in Ireland. He died 22 July, 1877.

Admitted 15 November, 1809.

Third son of Colman O'Loghlen of Port, near Ennis, co. Clare. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1809, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1811. He was a favourite with O'Connell, to whose practice he largely succeeded. He became a King's Counsel in 1830, a Serjeant in the following year, and in 1832 a Bencher of the King's Inns. He entered Parliament in 1835, became Solicitor and Attorney-Gteneral successively; in the following year a Baron of the Exchequer, and Master of the Rolls in 1837, being the first •Catholic law officer and judge in Ireland since the time of James II. In 1838 he was created a Baronet. He died in London 28 Sept 1842. Both as a barrister and judge he left a high reputation.

ONSLOW, EARL OF. See ONSLOW, GEORGE.

Admitted 23 May, 1707.

Son and heir of Foote Onslow of Woodford, Essex, First Commissioner of Excise. He was born at Chelsea on 1 Oct. 1691. Soon after his call to the Bar, 15 May, 1713, he was made Recorder of Guildford and represented that borough in Parliament in 1720. He was subsequently returned for the county of Surrey and chosen Speaker of the House of Commons on 23 Jan. 1727-8, and this honour was repeated four times, viz., in 1734, 1741, 1747 and 1754. He was elected a Bencher of the Inn 9 Feb. 1727-8. In 1728 he was sworn in of the Privy Council, in the following year was appointed Chancellor to Queen Caroline, and in 1734 made Treasurer of the Navy. This last appointment, however, he resigned as inconsistent with his office of Speaker. His conduct in the chair, during the thirty-three years he occupied it, "was distinguished by talents of the highest order, the most refined dignity, and a zealous watchfulness of the liberties and privileges of Parliament." He retired from the Speakership on 18 March, 1761, and died 17 Feb. 1768.

Mr. Speaker Onslow published no works, but he wrote many marginal notes to Burnet's History of his Own Times, which annotations were published with the edition of that work which appeared in 1823.