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 where he studied Civil Law. He was admitted to the Scottish Bar in 1748, and was raised to the Bench of the Court of Session by the title of Lord Hailes in 1766. He was a great authority on the law and history of Scotland, and his most important works are his Annals of Scotland, published in 1776, and his Memoirs relative to the History of Britain (1762); but he was the author of a vast number of other learned treatises. He died 29 Nov. 1792.

Admitted 3 May, 1811.

Only son of William D'Alton of Bestville, near Mullingar, co. Westmeath, where he was born 20 June, 1792. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained the prize for poetry in 1808. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1813. He devoted himself to genealogical studies, and in 1827 gained the prize offered by the Irish Royal Academy for the best essay on the social and political state of the Irish people before the twelfth century, a performance afterwards printed in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. In 1831 he gained the same society's prize for an essay on the reign of Henry II. in Ireland. His other works were: Memoirs of the Archbishop of Dublin (1838); The History of the County of Dublin (1838); The History of Drogheda; The Annals of Boyle; The History of Dundalk (1864). His only legal work was on The Law of Tithes. He died 20 Jan. 1867.

Admitted 1 May, 1781.

Third son of the Rev. Thomas Dampier, S.T.P., of Durham. He was born at Eton in 1758, educated there and at Cambridge, and was called to the Bar 6 June, 1788. After practising for thirty years with great distinction in the courts, he was appointed a Judge of the King's Bench, and knighted in 1813, a position which he only lived to hold two-and-a-half years, as he died on 3 Feb. 1816.

Admitted 1 March, 1598-9.

Eldest son of Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, Wilts. Previous to his admission he had served in the Netherlands under Lord Willoughby, who knighted him in 1588. In 1593 he and his bi-other were outlawed for being concerned in a brawl which led to the death of Henry Long, a gentleman of Wilts. They were pardoned in 1598 (the year of Charles's admission to the Inn). He became an ardent supporter of the Earl of Essex, and took part in his rising in 1601, for which he was committed to the Tower, and beheaded 18 March.

Admitted 2 February, 1563-4.

The son of Thomas Darcy, created Baron Darcy of Chiche, in Essex, by Edward VI. In the sixteenth year of Elizabeth, twelve years after his admission to the Temple, he accompanied the Earl of Essex into Ireland, where he died in 1580. He married Frances, daughter of Lord Chancellor Rich (q.v.), his son by whom was created Earl of Rivers 1626.