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This is a list ''(presently incomplete)'' of lawyers who held the rank of serjeant-at-law at the Irish Bar. The first recorded serjeant was Roger Owen, who was appointed c.1261, although the term itself is not found until 1388. In the early years an appointment might be temporary or cover only a part of the country. In contrast to England, for many years there was only one Serjeant-at-Law in Ireland, who was known as the King’s Serjeant or simply Serjeant. In 1627 another was appointed, and they were known as the Prime Serjeant and Second Serjeant. In 1682 a Third Serjeant was appointed. In 1805 the Prime Serjeant became known as First Serjeant. Until the nineteenth century at least the need for three serjeants was often questioned: it was pointed out that the office of Third Serjeant in particular was often left vacant for years. Certainly Sir Richard Ryves, the Recorder of Dublin, was able to combine that notoriously gruelling office with that of Third, and later Second Serjeant, which suggests that he was not greatly troubled with work in his role as Serjeant. Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton, who was removed from his office as Third Serjeant in 1692, complained of his dismissal, but admitted that in his two years in the office he had had almost no work to do. The position was extremely lucrative. Although in theory the salary in the 1690s was fixed at £30 a year, it was well known that in practice the various perquisites attached to the office brought it up to between £900 and ££1000 a year, apart from the serjeant's right to continue to take fees from private clients. The serjeants-at-law ranked ahead of the Attorney-General for Ireland and the Solicitor-General for Ireland until 1805, when the law officers took precedence.〔Haydn, p. 590〕 From about 1660 onwards he was expected to consult with the Attorney General, and was discouraged from acting on his own initiative: in 1692 the Prime Serjeant, John Osborne, was dismissed for repeatedly acting in opposition to Crown policy.〔Hart pp.89-91〕 No serjeants were appointed after 1919 and on the establishment of the Irish Free State the rank ceased to exist. The last surviving serjeant, Alexander Sullivan, moved to England where he practiced at the English Bar, and as a mark of courtesy was always addressed as Serjeant Sullivan. ==King’s Serjeants, 1261-1627== *1261 Roger Owen *1270 Robert of St. Edmund *1281 John Fitzwilliam *1292 John de Ponz *1293 John de Neville * 1297: William of Bardfield * 1297: Richard le Blond * 1310: Matthew of Harwood * 1319: John of Staines * 12 February 1326: Simon Fitz-Richard * 29 September 1327 John of Cardiff * 29 September 1327 John Gernoun * 1331 Thomas of Dent * 3 December 1341: Hugh Brown * 1 June 1343: William le Petit * 1348: Robert Preston, later Lord Gormanston * 1356: John Keppock * 1358 Richard White * 19 November 1357: Edmund de Bereford * 1373/4: John Tirel〔 * 18 April 1375: Richard Plunkett * 1375: Walter Cotterell * 12 June 1377 Roger L'Enfant * 1383: Peter Rowe * 1386: Richard Glynon * 24 September 1388: John Bermyngham * 1392: James Haire * 1393: Nicholas White * 1406: James Uriell * 20 October 1422: Christopher Bernevall * 8 November 1434: Sir Thomas Fitz-Christopher Plunket * 20 June 1435: Robert Dowdall * 4 February 1437: Edward Somerton * 24 June 1447 : Thomas Snetterby * 1460: Peter Trevers * 1462: Thomas Dowdall * 1463: Philip Bermingham * 1471 Henry Duffe * 1477 John Estrete * 1496 Thomas Kent * 1501 John Egyr *1504 John Barnewall, 3rd Baron Trimlestown * 1506 Clement Fitzleones * 1509 Patrick Finglas * 1511 Thomas Rochfort *1516 Thomas Fitzsimons *1520 Robert Barnewall * 1532: Sir Thomas Luttrell * 1534: Patrick Barnewall * 1550: Sir John Bathe * 11 September 1554: Richard Finglas * 21 February 1574: Edward Fitz-Symon * 9 May 1594: Arthur Corye * 1 November 1597: Edward Loftus * 8 June 1601: Edward Kerdiffe * 9 February 1609: Sir John Beere * 13 May 1617: Sir John Brereton〔Haydn, p. 591〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Serjeant-at-law (Ireland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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