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Luke Gernon
Luke Gernon (c.1580-c.1672) was an English-born judge who held office in seventeenth-century Ireland. He is best remembered for his manuscript ''A Discourse of Ireland'', which was written in 1620, but first published in 1904. He was the ancestor of several notable descendants, including the poet Nicholas Brady, and Maziere Brady, a long-serving Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the nineteenth century.
==Career==
Very little is known of his family background or his early life.〔Suranyi p.147〕 He was certainly English by birth and probably came from Hertfordshire. He is likely to have been the Lucas Gernon who entered Lincoln's Inn in 1604; afterwards he is said to have served for a time as a soldier. He arrived in Ireland some time before 1619, in which year he was admitted to the King's Inn.〔Kenny p.206〕 In the same year he became second justice of the Provincial Court of the Lord President of Munster, of which he gives some interesting details in his ''Discourse.''〔Kenny p.206〕 He lobbied, unsuccessfully, to be appointed a judge of one of the courts of common law, which would have enabled him to move to Dublin, the centre of political and social life (although the Irish capital did not overly impress him: "it resembles Bristol but falls short", he wrote).
He lived in Limerick, a city which, like many travellers of the time, he praised for its beauty, and he remained there until the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. Gernon and his family suffered greatly during the Rebellion, as we know from his petition in 1653 to Oliver Cromwell, in which he acknowledges Cromwell's lawful authority and asks for a pension, which it seems had already been promised but not paid. Gernon states that he had lost an estate worth £3000, and that he and his wife and four small children had been forced to "travel in depth of winter through the woods and bogs", whereby one child starved to death and Mrs. Gernon lost the use of her limbs.〔Suranyi p.147〕 On this occasion the pension was paid, as the petition was supported by Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery and by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, who seems to have been a close friend of Mrs. Gernon.
At the Restoration of Charles II, Gernon, like a number of other Irish judges who had acknowledged the authority of Cromwell, was pardoned for this lapse of loyalty, and his pension from Cromwell of 100 marks a year was continued by the new Government. He was not restored to his old office of second justice in Munster, which was given to John Nayler, but this is hardly surprising since he was now at least 80 years old. The Lord President of Munster's Court was abolished in 1672: Gernon may still have been alive then, although he was dead in 1673 when probate of his estate was granted to Thomas Sheridan. In his later years he lived in Cork.
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