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qualified person to provide this service as is the
case in England. The basic idea is that the mem
ber would complete certain forms draft the objects
clause and thereafter the mechanics of formation
would be executed on his behalf for a fee. It is
also envisaged that the Society might have avail
able a number of "ready made" companies which
would be available to members.
If members who would be interested in availing
of such a service would make their interest known
to the Society in the coming weeks the potential
support
for such a service could be gauged.
Should sufficient interest be shown it is hoped
that the service could be in operation by an early
date.
3rd July,
1968: The President in the chair, also
present Messrs. Peter D. M. Prentice, Robert
McD. Taylor, Ralph J. Walker, John B. Jermyn,
Norman Spendlove, Thomas Jackson
(Junior),
Desmond Moran, John Garrigan, Bruce St. J.
Blake, T. O'Donnell, Eunan McCarron, John
Maher, J. C. Carroll, Rory O'Connor, Richard
Knight, Joseph Dundon, G. M. Doyle, Gerald
Hickey, Thomas
J. Fitzpatrick, Desmond
J.
Collins, James R. G. Green, Brendan A. McGrath,
P. A. O'Donnell, W. A. Osborne, D. O'Connor.
The report of
the Premises Committee was
received and discussed. It was decided that the
Society should purchase King's Hospital School.
THE KINGS HOSPITAL
As reported in the
Gazette
(May 1968, Vol. 62,
No. 1) the Council appointed a sub-committee to
investigate the possibility of obtaining additional
premises for the Society. The committee, to which
the following members were appointed, Peter D.
M. Prentice, Desmond Moran, Bruce St. J. Blake,
P. C. Moore, Norman T. J. Spendlove, recommen
ded to the Council that Kings Hospital School
be purchased at a price of £105,000 and at a
special meeting of the Council on the 3rd July,
1968 the decision to purchase was taken.
The Hospital and Free School of King Charles
the Second was founded by Royal Charter in
1669. The buildings were designed by Thomas
Ivory who was born in Cork in 1720. He was the
most celebrated architect of his day and was
eventually Master of the Dublin Society School of
Architecture, where he was succeeded by James
Gandon, designer of the Custom House and other^
famous Dublin buildings. The King's Hospital
is Ivory's finest remaining work. He retired in
1780 after supervising
the completion of
the
main building
including
the
facade and
the
boardroom. The original drawings were presented
to King George III and are presently housed in
the British Museum.
It is claimed that the King's Hospital is one
of the most beautiful and original of Dublin's
Georgian buildings. Ivory excelled in detail and
variations of scale and King's Hospital
is an
example of how he successfully combined shallow
curves, slender lan;erns and lace-like balustrade.
His plans- were never carried out completely. The
central cupola, much modified, was erected in
1894 from R. J. Stirling's design.
The
foundation
stone
of
the
new
school
building was laid in 1773 by the City Fathers.
The Board of Govenors was selected from the
prominent citizens of Dublin, but in 1871
the
Free School became the private school which has
continued
to occupy
the property up
to
the
present time. Archbishop James Usher, the son
of the first Sir Winston Churchill (later the first
Duke of Marlborough) and Dean Swift were all
associated with the school.
The boys wore a special uniform down to 1914
at least,
long blue cassocks at first, later blue
swallow-tail coats and yellow waistcoats and
hence it was known as the "Blewcoat" or Blue-
coat School. The school
is moving to modern
premises situated near Lucan on the outskirts of
the City in the Autumn of 1970.
It is thought that the new premises will provide
a fitting environment for the Society's law school,
and perhaps a centre for combined legal educa
tion at some
future date. While
the King's
Hospital
is
structurally
sound,
extensive
in
terior modification and decoration will be neces
sary to convert the premises into modern office
accommodation lecture rooms and so forth.
The solicitors nominated to act for the Society
in the purchase are J. G. O'Connor & Co., 9,
Clare Street, Dublin 2. The Society will nominate
architects
in due course
to prepare detailed
plans for the renovation and utilisation of the
premises.
COMMENTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL
BAR ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
"I have never heard such universal approbation
of the sustained brilliance of the Law Society's
Social functions for the delegates of the Inter
national Bar Association".
—James Dillon, T.D.
"I suppose in a way I am wearing two hats
at once. In my hat as Treasurer of the I.B.A. I
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