The Gazette 1913-14

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, 1 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 ! 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 I Lordship on all occasions in promoting that | good-will and fellowship, and particularly i that mutual confidence and respect so