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William Whitshed
William Whitshed (1679–1727) was an Irish politician and judge who held office as Solicitor-General and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland; just before his death he moved to become Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. He became the Member of Parliament for Wicklow County in 1703, and was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1709; he was Lord Chief Justice 1714-1727. He is principally remembered for the hatred he aroused in Jonathan Swift, who among many other insults called him a "vile and profligate villain", and compared him to William Scroggs, an English Chief Justice notorious for corruption. These attacks were the result of the trial of Edward Waters, Swift's publisher, for seditious libel, where Whitshed's conduct of the trial was widely condemned as improper,〔Ball p.96〕 and Whitshed's unsuccessful efforts to have another printer indicted for publication of The Drapier Letters.〔Ball pp.103-5〕
==Background and early career==
He was born in Dublin to a long established family of Dublin merchants who also took part in politics; his father Thomas Whitshed sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Carysfort and was also a practicing barrister.〔Ball p.189〕 His mother was Mary Quin, daughter of an alderman of Dublin. His grandfather had committed suicide, a fact which Swift and other enemies later seized on to ridicule him. He entered Middle Temple in 1694 and was called to the Irish Bar. He did not have any great reputation as a lawyer or politician and his rapid rise to power caused some surprise;〔Ball p.81〕 in particular, his elevation to the office of Lord Chief Justice when he was little more than 35 years old was most unusual, if not unprecedented. Ball attributes his rise to his family's wealth and political connections, and the friendship of William King, Archbishop of Dublin, who had considerable but not unlimited influence over judicial appointments.
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