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Admitted 16 March, 1781.

Eldest son of Thomas Burrowes, of Portarlington, Queen's County, where he was born. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he devoted himself to the study of history. In 1784 he published a pamphlet on Catholic Emancipation, which brought him into notice. He was called to the Irish Bar, and became an active member of the Irish patriotic party and an opponent of the Act of Union. In 1803 he was Counsel in the defence of Robert Emmet, and in 1811 defended the Catholic delegates. In 1821 he was appointed Judge of the Insolvent Debtors Court. He died in London, and was buried at Kensal Green, 1841.



Admitted 12 April, 1825.

Second son of George Henry Burt, Speaker of the House of Assembly of St. Christopher, where he was born in 1810. After his call to the Bar, 21 Nov. 1845, he practised in his native island, and became Attorney-General there in 1850 and for some time Speaker of the House of Assembly. In 1860 he was appointed Commissioner of the Civil Court in Western Australia, and in the following year promoted to the Chief Justiceship, which position he held till his death, 21 Dec. 1879. He received the honour of knighthood in 1873.



Admitted 16 April, 1834.

Only son of Hans Busk, of Great Cumberland Place, the scholar and poet (b. 1772), and grandson of Sir Wadsworth Busk, Attorney-General of the Isle of Man, Reader at the Inn in 1794, and Treasurer in 1801. Though called to the Bar 7 May, 1841, he devoted his attention to other matters than the law, especially to the organisation of rifle clubs throughout the kingdom. On this subject he published many pamphlets, as The Rifle, and how to use it; The Rifleman's Manual; Rifle Volunteers, and how to organise them. He was also greatly interested in the Navy, for which he was originally intended, and in 1859 published a book entitled The Navies of the World, which was a comprehensive treatise on the subject to that date, with suggestions for the improvement of the British Navy. He also took great interest in education, and published a number of pamphlets on the subject. He resided in Radnorshire, of which county he was High Sheriff in 1847. He died in London in 1882.



Admitted 9 February, 1682-3.

He is entered in the Register as "Illustrissimus et praenobilis Princeps Jacobus, Dux Ormondite, tam in regno Angliæ quam in regno Hiberniae, locum tenens Regni et Senescallus Hospitii Domini Regis Caroli Secundi." He was four times Lord-Lieuteuant in Ireland, from 1642 to 1647, from 1648 to 1650, from 1662 to 1669, and from 1677 to 1685. His admission to the Inn, therefore, was during his last administration. He was created a Duke in 1661. He died 21 July, 1688. His grandson, James, afterwards second Duke (q.v.), was admitted to the Inn on the same day, together with a number of other persons of distinction.