Tuesday 5 February 2013
45 Rickard Deasy
Constituency : Cork 1855-61
Rickard was an Irish Catholic barrister with a large practice who first got elected in a by-election in 1855.
In 1859 Palmerston appointed Rickard Solicitor-General for Ireland then a year later Attorney-General. One of his first tasks was steering the 1860 Landlord and Tenant Bill through Parliament and thus it came to be known as Deasy's Act. He was unpartisan and generally popular in the House.
In 1861 Rickard became a judge on the Irish bench and had to give up his seat ( which fell to the Conservatives in the by-election ). In 1878 he was appointed ( by Disraeli's government ) to the Irish Court of Appeal.
He died in 1883 aged 71.
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