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Vol. XI, No. 2.]
June, 1917.
r FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Half-Yearly General Meeting.
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society was held on Wednesday, 16th May,
in the Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin. Mr. John W. Richards, President,
occupied the chair. The following members
were present:—
T. G. Quirke (Vice-President), W. H. Fry
(Vice-President), Sir A. F. Baker, A. E.
Bradley, E. H. Burne, J. H. Callan, E. N.
Edwards, C. G. Gamble, W. S. Hayes, James
Henry, James Moore, A. H. S. Orpen, C. St.
G. Orpen, Patrick Rooney, W. V. Seddall,
Henry Shannon, W. J. Shannon, W. T.
Sheridan, R. A. Macnamara, H. J.'Synnott,
Basil Thompson, J. H. Walsh, R. G. Warren,
R. B. White, H. D. Draper, John O'Sullivan,
E. S. Lowe, D. A. Quaid, H. C. Neilson, A. G.
Joyce, W. J. Ryan, M. Noyk, John Moran,
James Brady, A. Lane-Joynt, Samuel Kerr,
B. M. O'Grady, M. E. Knight (Clones),
N. L. Moran, Daniel O'Grady, C. Moran,
F. V. Gordon, E. J. Kenny, R. Stephenson,
H. O'B. Moran (Limerick), G. M. Collins,
J. K. Woods, J. D. O'Connell (Tralee),
Sidney Bell,
J. M. McDowell,
F.
E.
Bermingham, W. H. Geoghegan, R. T.
Holmes, J. T. Doyle, J. G. Lidwell, E. J.
O'Farrell, A.
T. Ellis,
James O'Brien
(Nenagh), C. C. Shaw.
The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read
the notice convening the meeting, and also
the minutes of
the Half-yearly General
Meeting held in November last, which latter
were confirmed and signed.
The President nominated the following
members to act as Scrutineers of the ballot
for election of Council,
to be held next
November:—Mr. E. F. Collins, Mr. M.
Dawson, Mr. J. Dyas, Mr. W. Geoghegan,
and Mr. H. P. Mayne.
Mr. Quirke moved, and Mr. W. Houghton
Fry seconded, and it was resolved that the
following be appointed Auditors of
the
Accounts of the Society for the period from
12th May, 1916, to 30th April, 1917 :—
Mr. W. W. Carruthers, Mr. David B. Dunne,
and Mr. T. A. Ireland.
President's Address.
THE PRESIDENT, in the opening portion
of his address, referred to the war, and to
the
fact
that
118
Irish Solicitors and
76 Apprentices of Solicitors had
joined
His Majesty's forces.
Of these, fourteen
Solicitors and eight Apprentices had given
up their lives, including the following re
ported since last November :—Captain Ivan
H. Garvey, Second-Lieutenant J. S. Boal,
Second-Lieutenant P. J. Furlong, and Lance-
Corporal Herbert S. Findlater. The following
had received the Military Cross :—Captain
John Ronan, Captain James G. E. Fitz
gerald, and Lieutenant Thomas B. L. Disney.
The President went on to refer in sympathetic
terms to the deaths of the following members
of the profession which had occurred since
the last Half-yearly Meeting :—Sir Benjamin
Whitney, Mr. P. K. White, Sir P. Coll,
K.C.B. ;
Mr. T. O'Meara, and Mr. R.
Netterville Barren. He offered the congratu
lations of the Society to Sir J. H. Campbell
on his elevation to the post of Chief Justice,
and to Mr. James O'Connor, a former member