Thursday, 3 April 2014
468 James Lawson
Constituency : Portarlington 1865-8
James took Portarlington from the Tories.
James was another Irish barrister educated at Trinity College. He contested Dublin University in 1857. He was a Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland during the Tory period 1858-9 but was then appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1861 holding the post until 1865 when appointed Attorney-General. He had to deal with suppressing the Fenians and the Irish People newspaper. This didn't hinder James getting elected in 1865.
James was defeated by the Tories in 1868. He became a judge of Common Pleas that year. He transferred to the Queen's Bench in 1882. He upheld the law in a series of political trials during the Land League agitation which led to a plot to murder him involving Patrick Delaney who was later involved in the Phoenix park murders.
He died in 1887 aged 70.
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