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Sir Andrew Porter, 1st Baronet
Born (1837-06-27 ) 27 June 1837Died 9 January 1919(1919-01-09) (aged 81) Education Occupation(s) Lawyer, judge Spouse Agnes Horsburgh Children 6, including John and Andrew Parents
Sir Andrew Marshall Porter, 1st Baronet PC , QC (27 June 1837 – 9 January 1919) was an Irish lawyer and judge.
Background and education
Porter was born in Belfast , the son of Reverend John Scott Porter and his wife Margaret Marshall.[ 1] Royal Belfast Academical Institution , and Queen's University, Belfast .
Legal and judicial career
In 1860 Porter was called to the Bar and by 1872 had become Queen's Counsel . He sat as Member of Parliament for County Londonderry from 1881 to 1884 and served under William Ewart Gladstone as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1881 to 1882 and as Attorney-General for Ireland from 1882 to 1883: he was deeply involved in the trials following the Phoenix Park murders . He was appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1883 and served in that post until 1907. It was announced that he would receive a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of King Edward VII ,[ 2] [ 3]
A. M. Sullivan described him as "a fine lawyer of noble presence and true dignity" who did not tolerate any disturbance to the decorum of his Court. As a judge, Sullivan ranked him as one of the four greatest he had ever known, and perhaps the equal of the celebrated Christopher Palles .
Family
Porter married Agnes Horsburgh and they had six children:
Helen Violet Porter (d. 1961), unmarried
Margaret Porter, married Capt. Cuthbert Avenal John Vernon
Sir John Scott Horsburgh-Porter, 2nd Baronet (1871–1953), succeeded his father in the titleAlexander Porter (1872–1946)
Andrew Marshall Porter (1874–1900), a noted sportsman who was killed in the Second Boer WarWilliam Francis Porter (1878–1903) While living in Dublin, Porter resided at 42 Merrion Square East, as noted in Ulysses James Joyce . He died there on 9 January 1919.[ 1]
Arms
Coat of arms of Sir Andrew Porter, 1st Baronet
Notes
Granted 1 September 1902 by Sir Arthur Edward Vicars , Ulster King of Arms [ 4]
Crest
On a wreath of the colours on a fasces fesswise a cherub Proper.
Escutcheon
Argent on a bend Azure three bells of the field in chief a portcullis and in base two keys in saltire Sable.
Motto
J'ayme Porter Sacours
References
Plarr, Victor, Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (London, 1899), p. 872.
Gifford, Don, Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses (University of California Press, 1989), p. 182.
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