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His appointment to the Bench was well-deserved on merit, but is said to have been partly the result of the
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in 1872, attended in his last illness by his brother James, a well-known physician.
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in 1825, but did not proceed to a degree. He entered the
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Argent a lion rampant Sable armed and langued Gules.
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194:"Obituary: The Hon. Baron Hughes"
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265:Dictionary of National Biography
236:The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921
24:Baron of the Court of Exchequer
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62:in 1832. He was called to the
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387:Solicitor-General for Ireland
360:Solicitor-General for Ireland
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28:Solicitor-General for Ireland
817:Michael Morris, Baron Morris
259:"Hughes, Henry George"
97:, forbidding Roman Catholic
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42:Background and early career
26:. In 1850 he was appointed
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81:Political and legal career
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52:Trinity College Dublin
1116:Alumni of King's Inns
1096:Members of Gray's Inn
952:Charles Hare Hemphill
887:William Moore Johnson
737:Richard Wilson Greene
677:Philip Cecil Crampton
334:Fulke Greville-Nugent
326:Fulke Greville-Nugent
302:Fulke Greville-Nugent
1126:Irish King's Counsel
1037:Thomas Watters Brown
1032:Daniel Martin Wilson
847:Charles Robert Barry
807:James Anthony Lawson
662:Charles Kendal Bushe
647:William Cusack-Smith
313:Member of Parliament
172:Non Vis Sed Veritas
139:Bray, County Wicklow
32:Member of Parliament
782:Henry George Hughes
757:Henry George Hughes
747:James Henry Monahan
732:Thomas Cusack-Smith
712:David Richard Pigot
587:St George Caulfeild
306:Richard Maxwell Fox
234:Ball, F. Elrington
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20:Henry George Hughes
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917:John George Gibson
857:Christopher Palles
777:Jonathan Christian
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380:Jonathan Christian
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30:. He was elected
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1027:Denis Henry
912:John Monroe
882:Hugh Holmes
792:John George
527:John Temple
338:Henry White
254:Lee, Sidney
204:30 December
56:King's Inns
1070:Categories
897:John Naish
637:John Toler
617:John Scott
582:John Bowes
462:John Bathe
364:1850–1852
181:References
163:Escutcheon
111:common law
60:Gray's Inn
667:Henry Joy
602:John Gore
70:in 1844.
66:in 1834,
64:Irish Bar
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317:Longford
36:Longford
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117:Family
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169:Motto
157:Crest
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315:for
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