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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law
Society
of Ireland.
[DECEMBER,
1921
Half-yearly
General
Meeting.
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the
Society was held in the Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts, on Monday the 28th November.
The Chair was occupied by Mr. Charles
Gamble, President of the Society.
The following members were present:—
E. N. Edwards (Vice-President), M. L. Hearn
(Vice-President), R. Blair White, W. S.
Hayes, A. E. Bradley, James Henry, P. J.
Brady, T. G. Quirke, E. H. Burne, J. E.
MacDermott,
James Moore,
Sir
J. R.
O'Connell, J. H. Walsh, R. G. Warren,
J. W. Dyas, Frank Fottrell, W. H. Fry,
R. N. Keller, T. F. Monks, A. H. S. Orpen,
A. D. Orr, Patrick Rooney, Peter Seales,
W. T. Sheridan, A. W. Stirling, Basil
Thompson, W. G. Bradley, William Henry,
C. P. Wilson, R. A. Andrews, Sir George
Roche, C. St. G. Orpen; F. G. Sharpe, H. D.
Draper, F. D. Darley, E. S. Lowe, W. J. Ryan
D. A. Quaid, A. Woodcock, E. Condell,
O. P. Beater, A. Lloyd-Blood, J. W. Davis,
C. Friery, James Robinson, Elliott McNeill,
B. M. O'Grady, R. D. Orr, R. Ryan, J. T.
Hamerton, S. G. Rutherford, W. S. Barrett,
C. Corcoran, S. M. Bell, T. 0. Davis, F. S. D.
Colquhoun, W. Geoghegan, V. Kennedy,
J. P. Collins, F. V. Gordon, E. B. Maguire,
F. E. Bermingham, John J. Beatty, Walter
Beatty, M. J. O'Farrell, C. G. Stapleton,
M. J. O'Neill, C. B. White, W. J. M. Coulter,
G. Byrne, P. J. Sheridan,
Ivan Howe,
E. J. Kenny, A. J. Reddy, Q. W. Kennedy,
C. B. W. Boyle, V. F. Kirwan, W. T.
O'Sulhvan.
THE SECRETARY (Mr. W. G. Wakely)
read the notice convening the meeting, also
the Minutes of
the Half-yearly General
Meeting held last May, which were signed
by the President, who also signed the audited
accounts of the Society for year ending 30th
April.
The Secretary read the Report of the
Scrutineers of the ballot for Council for year
ending 26th November, 1922, which stated
that the following had been returned un
opposed as Provincial Delegates :—Thomas
M. Greer
(Ulster),
James
S.
Gaffney,
(Munster), Michael Buggy (Leinster)
and
Henry J. Concannon (Connaught) ; and the
following having obtained the number of
votes placed after their names have been
elected as the 31 Ordinary Members of the
,Council:—P. J. Brady, 238 ; W. S. Hayes
232; C. G. Gamble, 223 ; T. G. Quirke, 218
J. W. Richards, 214 ; E. H. Burne, 213
W. V. Seddall, 212; A. H. S. Orpen, 211
R. G. Warren, 202 ; J. E. MacDermott, 197
Frank Fottrell, 196; J. H. Walsh, 195
R. Blair White, 193; James Moore, 192
Basil Thompson, 190; Reginald Andrews,
190 ; E. N. Edwards, 187 ; W. T. Sheridan,
183; A. D. Orr, 175; Peter Seales, 172;
W. Gordon Bradley, 169 ; T. F. Monks, 168 ;
W. H. Fry, 167 ;
M. L. Hearn, 161 ; A. W.
Stirling, 156 ; Sir J. O'Connell, 151 ;
J. W.
Dyas, 151 ; R. Nesbitt Keller, 149 ; William
Henry, 145 ; P. Rooney, 144 ; C. P. Wilson,
.138; and the following to form a supple-,
mental list to fill vacancies :—L. F. Kenny,
128; Hugh Horan, 115; J. H. Callan, 108.
THE
PRESIDENT
in moving
the
adoption of the Annual Report of the Council
said :
I desire to express my regret at the
loss which the Council has sustained through
the retirement from its ranks of Mr. W. J.
Shannon, Mr. James Henry, and Mr. A. E.
Bradley, all past Presidents who have each
rendered valuable services to the Society.
When last I had the privilege of addressing
you in general meeting it was at the Society's
Half-yearly Meeting last May, and I then
ventured to express the hope that within
another six months we might see this country
of ours on the threshold of settled conditions
once more.
I have ever,
in public and otherwise,
explained that this Society, both
in
its
organisation,
functions
and
objects,
is
entirely non-political; once more I desire
to emphasize that, but to those who are
concerned with Ireland's welfare (and who
more so than the professions and especially
the legal community) cannot be expected
under the wholly unprecedented and ex
ceptional
circumstances
of present day
national life to remain entirely tongue-tied.
I pointed out at
the last Meeting how
closely in touch with the rest of the popula
tion the Solicitors' profession are, and I
exhorted them throughout the country to
use their influence in the cause of peace,
prosperity and goodwill.