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MAY
1913]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
Commissioners to Administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the
following to be Commissioners to administer
Oaths :
Arthur W. Winder, Solicitor, Cork.
John J. Smyth, Solicitor, Drogheda.
William T. Hogan, Merchant, Ennis-
tymon.
Hugh R. Powell, Clerk of Petty Sessions,
Dungannon.
Peter McAleer, Auctioneer, Dungannon.
Obituary.
MR. ALBERT MAIBEN CONYERS, 'Solicitor,
died on the 2nd April, 1913, at Medicine
Hat, Canada.
Mr. Conyers served his apprenticeship with
Mr. A. Blood-Smyth, Limerick, and was
admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1911.
MR. ROBERT CROOKSHANK, Solicitor, died
on the 6th April, 1913, at his residence,
Glenmann's House, Portrush, Co. Antrim.
Mr. Crookshank served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. Matthew Anderson,
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Mount]oy Square, West, Dublin, and was
admitted in Easter Term, 1845. He, for some
years prior
to
1900
(when he
retired),
practised in partnership with Mr. Hunt, W.
Leech, and Mr. John M. Davies, who carry
on the business of the firm, at 22 Kildare
Street, Dublin, and Coleraine.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
UPON the 15th April, the first day of Easter
Sittings, the Right Hon. Ignatius J. O'Brien,
Lord Chancellor, took his seat for the first
time in the Court of Appeal.
The Attorney-General (Mr. Molony, K.C.)
addressing the Lord Chancellor, said as this
was the first occasion on which his Lordship
sat as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, he might be
permitted, on behalf of the Bar, to tender to
his Lordship their warmest congratulations
on his attainment to the highest judicial office
in the country. They of the Bar who had
worked side by side with him for many years
knew that his Lordship would bring to the
duties of his high office great ability, great
learning
and
experience,
and
they
all
rejoiced at the very high honour His Majesty
had been pleased to confer upon him. He
would ask at the same time to be permitted
to express the universal regret of his pro–
fessional brethren at the continued illness of
his Lordship's predecessor which had caused
him to relinquish an office which he filled
with such dignity and distinction.
They
could only hope that, relieved from the cares
and anxieties inseparable from that office,
they would soon be able to rejoice at his
restoration to health.
The President of the Incorporated Law
Society (Mr. James Henry) said, on behalf of
the Solicitor
profession,
he
desired
to
associate himself with the sympathetic words
which had fallen from the Attorney-General
in reference to his Lordship's predecessor.
As a man, as an advocate, and as a Judge, he
had endeared himself to and obtained the
confidence of every one with whom he had
come in contact. They all deeply deplored
the illness that resulted in his retirement
from the high office which he held, and they
hoped that release from these cares of office
would be the means of restoring him fully to
health and strength. To his Lordship he
tendered, on behalf of his brethren of the
Solicitor profession and himself, the most
hearty congratulations on his promotion to
the highest office that any Irish lawyer could
aspire to, and which His Majesty could confer.
It would be very unseemly or presumptious
of him to refer to his Lordship's qualifica–
tions for that high office. But the Solicitors
had their own standpoint, and those of them
who had watched his Lordship's career
and he claimed to be amongst that number
knew that he would bring to the discharge of
his duties ihat fearlessness, integrity and
devotion
to duty which were eminently
characteristic of his Lordship at the Bar and
as Law Officer. There were some branches
of jurisdiction with reference to which his
Lordship came into close relationship with
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the Solicitor profession ;
and knowing as he
did his Lordship's ideal of the relations that
must exist between the Bench, the Bar, and
the Solicitor profession, he felt confident that
the Council over which he
(Mr. Henry)
presided would have the co-operation of his
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Lordship on all occasions in promoting that
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good-will and fellowship, and particularly
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that mutual confidence
and
respect
so