Fine Gael chose a young Teachta Dála and barrister, Tom O ' Higgins ( nephew of Kevin O ' Higgins ) to run against de Valera.

* Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, trainee barrister, artist and contestant on the fourth series of the UK TV Show The Apprentice, lives in Shoreham-by-Sea.

Woolf was born in London, the third of ten children of Solomon Rees Sydney, a Jewish barrister and Queen's Counsel and Marie ( née de Jongh ).

Michelle Smith, now more commonly referred to by her married name, Michelle Smith de Bruin, is currently a practising barrister.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1970 and co-founded the Hong Kong Law Journal with Gerald de Basto QC, another local barrister.

Born in 1873, de Wet obtained a law degree from the University of Cambridge in 1895 and was admitted as an advocate ( the South African equivalent of a barrister ) in 1896.

The idea for a regular section on education in The Times was first proposed in 1905 by J E G de Montmorency, a barrister and writer who later composed leader articles for The TES.

* 16 February-Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North – West ( born 1910 ).

* 31 October – Pierce Charles de Lacy O ' Mahony, Nationalist politician, barrister and philanthropist ( born 1850 )

* 10 December-Vivion de Valera, barrister, managing director of The Irish Press, Fianna Fáil TD representing Dublin North – West ( died 1982 ).

* Jules Van Dievoet, barrister at the Court de Cassation of Belgium.

After practising successfully as a barrister at Angers and Paris, he was instructed by Louise of Savoy, mother of the king Francis I, to uphold her rights against the constable de Bourbon in 1521.

Born July 28, 1904 into a distinguished Dublin family, he was the son of barrister Arthur Francis Carew Meredith K. C., whose opinions were sought by Éamon de Valera in drafting the constitution of the Irish Republic ( 1919-22 ).

Cameron was born in Battersea, London, of Scottish parentage ; his father, William Ernest Cameron, was a barrister who wrote novels under the pseudonym Mark Allerton.

Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, liked the film, the acting, and Hitchcock's direction, and wrote, " With all the skill in presentation for which both gentlemen are famed, David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock have put upon the screen a slick piece of static entertainment in their garrulous The Paradine Case ... Gregory Peck is impressively impassioned as the famous young London barrister who lets his heart, cruelly captured by his client, rule his head.

The affair attracted national press attention when Mrs Mayo's husband, the barrister Rupert Mayo, wrote to a local newspaper, the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, " The irony is that I will not reap the benefits of Mr Cameron's excellent family-based policy proposals because one of his own MPs has ripped my own family apart.

His father was a hired barrister for the British Government, a learned man and an autodidact who wrote and published the biography of Amir Abdur Rahman, an Emir of Imperial Afghanistan.

The Times wrote of his dual career, " His fertility was extraordinary, and though it is easy to be contemptuous of his drawing-room lyrics, sentimental, humorous and patriotic, which are said to number about 3, 000 altogether, it is certain that no practising barrister has ever before provided so much innocent pleasure.

Parris, who died in 1996, was Craig's barrister at the 1952 trial, and wrote that Goddard told Maxwell Fyfe to ignore the jury's recommendation for mercy, and that Bentley must be hanged.

Having become a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1777, Mitford wrote A Treatise on the Pleadings in Suits in the Court of Chancery by English Bill, a work which was reprinted several times in England and America.

the barrister best recalled for his defence of Steinie Morrison in 1910, wrote an autobiography.

After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson ( 1865 – 1919 ) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson ( or Katharine Tynan-Hinkson or Katharine Hinkson-Tynan ).

Afterwards, when the political and social agitation had died down, he returned to his practice as a barrister, which he had deserted, and also wrote largely.

After studying at the Kingswood School, Bath he entered Edinburgh University to study medicine but then took up law, and became a barrister, wrote several legal text-books, and in 1852 was made Recorder of Hull.

As a young barrister Morris Finer also wrote leaders for the London Evening Standard.

He was the son of John Adolphus ( 1768 – 1845 ), a well-known London barrister who wrote A History of England to 1783 ( 1802 ), A History of France from 1790 ( 1803 ) and other works.

A barrister in the case, Peter Thornton, later a QC and senior circuit judge, wrote about it the following year in Rights, the journal of the National Council for Civil Liberties ( later Liberty ).

In 1878 she married Richard Pankhurst, a barrister 24 years her senior known for supporting women's right to vote ; they had five children over the next ten years.

They had six children: three sons, Benjamin, Damian, and Orlando ; and three daughters, Rebecca Fitzgerald, wife of barrister Edward Fitzgerald, QC, Flora Fraser and Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

He married Gail Felicity Chippington, a barrister, on 20 April 1974 in Chipping Norton ; they had two children, Catherine ( born 1978 ) and Richard ( born 1982 ).

Edward Vaughan Hyde Kenealy QC ( 1819 – 1880 )., was an Irish born barrister, writer and poet who lived in Wellington Road, Portslade with his wife and eleven children from the 1850s until the mid 1870's.

Cecilia Helena Payne was one of three children born in Wendover, England to Emma Leonora Helena ( nee Pertz ) and Edward John Payne, a London barrister, historian and accomplished musician.

They had two children before Greig died in 1807, one of whom, Woronzow Greig, became a barrister and scientist.

Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister.

She is the second of four children born to Joanna, a British teacher and former actress, and barrister Oliver Simon Peter Blunt, QC, one of the highest-profile barristers in the United Kingdom, earning an estimated £ 1million annually.

Their children included Margery Maude, who became an actress ; Pamela Cynthia Maude ( 1893 – 1975 ); and John Cyril Maude, who became a barrister, judge and Member of Parliament.

Since 1994, he has been a barrister in London, where he lives with his wife and their two children.

A frustrated judge in an English ( adversarial ) court finally asked a barrister after witnesses had produced conflicting accounts, ' Am I never to hear the truth?

Keith Rowley, QC, the barrister for the shareholders, alleged Byers had " devised a scheme by which he intended to injure the shareholders of Railtrack Group by impairing the value of their interests in that company without paying compensation and without the approval of Parliament ".

Although Gladstone entered Lincoln's Inn in 1833, with a view to becoming a barrister, by 1839 he had requested that his name should be removed from the list because he no longer intended to be called to the Bar.

In the autumn of 1878, at the age of 20, Emmeline Goulden met and began a courtship with Richard Pankhurst, a barrister who had advocated women's suffrage – and other causes, including freedom of speech and education reform – for years.

In the 1880s and 1890s he had earned a handsome income as a barrister, but in later years had found it increasingly difficult to sustain his lavish lifestyle, and his mansion at 20 Cavendish Square had had to be sold in the 1920s.

Queen's Counsel and serjeants were prohibited, at least from the mid-nineteenth century, from drafting pleadings alone ; a junior barrister had to be retained.

They were also not permitted to appear in court without a junior barrister, and they had to have chambers in London.

These restrictive practices had a number of consequences: they made the taking of silk something of a professional risk, because appointment abolished at a stroke some of the staple work of the junior barrister ; they made the use of leading Counsel more expensive, and therefore ensured that they were retained only in more important cases, and they protected the work of the junior bar, which could not be excluded by the retention of leading Counsel.

Coroners must have had a previous career, in the UK, as a lawyer ( solicitor / barrister ) or physician of at least five years standing.

Born to a barrister and his wife, who had both died by the time he was 5, Hale was raised by his father's relative, a strict Puritan, and inherited his faith.

In 1945 Lynch was called to the Bar and had to decide whether to remain in his Civil Service job or practice as a barrister.

At the time he was a thirty-one year old barrister with a strong practice, and her father had no qualms about accepting his offer.

Murdoch had a regular role as Uncle Tom, the briefless senior barrister of chambers, in Rumpole of the Bailey ; this being his last TV role.

Bogarde starred in the film Victim ( 1961 ), playing a homosexual London barrister who fights the blackmailers of a young man with whom he has had an emotional relationship.

He married in 1814 Catherine, eldest daughter of Peter Martineau, by whom he had one son, who died in infancy, and in 1844 Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter of William Hutchins, by whom he had six sons ( of whom the eldest, Edward, a barrister, assisted in the preparation of the ‘ Biographia Juridica ’) and three daughters.

After serving from six to nine years as an " inner barrister ," the student was called to the Bar, assuming he had fulfilled the requirements of having argued twice at moots in one of the Inns of Chancery, twice in the Hall of his Inn of Court and twice in the Inn Library.

At the time Gray's Inn was the odd one out amongst the Inns ; the others did not recognise Ancients as a degree of barrister and had Benchers roughly corresponding to the Readers used at Gray's Inn ( although the positions were not identical ).