lowered to the Irish tariff, which must be finally adjusted in the parliament of Great Britain. And I think that in voting the Resolution, we are but doing our duty as the representatives of Ireland.”
Justice Perrin. — A steadfast Huguenot, named Perrin, left for conscience’ sake his property at Nonere, and took refuge at Lisburn. This was at the period of the Revocation. A few years afterwards he removed to Waterford, and there founded a family. The Judge’s father married a cultivated Irish lady, named Daly, and had many children, but was in straitened circumstances until a brother died, and left him £30,000, amassed in India. The Ulster Journal states that Louis, the future Judge, was born in the County of Waterford, near Clonmel. Mr. J. Roderick O’Flanagan, author of “The Irish Bar,” claims him as an Ulster man, and a pupil of the Diocesan School of Armagh. He gained a scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1799. He became a student of law, and kept the terms both in London and Dublin, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1806. Mr. O’Flanagan writes of him, “He had a great knowledge of the laws of pleading and evidence, and was especially versed in mercantile law — a branch not very much studied by the general class of Irish law students.” “He was so respected for his character and conduct as to acquire the title of Honest Louis Perrin.” He went the North-East Circuit, and had a very large practice for many years. He became a King’s Counsel. As a Whig he entered Parliament in 1831, and was made Sergeant-at-Law, and in 1834 Attorney-General for Ireland. Although a useful and successful M.P., he accepted a seat in the Irish King’s Bench in 1835, and adorned the Bench for a quarter of a century, exhibiting “great sagacity, and a strong sense of right.” Mr. O’Flanagan says:—
“To any argument that bore upon the case before him he displayed great attention; but if irrelevant topics were introduced, a very significant grunt showed the advocate the Court was not with him. He held the scales of justice with a firm and steady hand, and, as between the Crown and the subject, there was no inclination of the scales to either side. He was very social and hospitable, and entertained his friends either at his town house in Granby Row, Rutland Square, or at his country villa [at Clontarf].”
His eldest son, John Perrin, who had obtained eminence at the Bar, and was counsel to the Castle of Dublin, died on 28th January i860, aged forty-three. This severe blow confirmed Justice Perrin in his resolution to resign. He retired in that year to a villa near Rush, but “his habits of dispensing justice were so strong that he used to attend at Petty Sessions, to the great pleasure of the county magistrates, who felt quite proud of his attendance on their bench.” He died on 7th December 1864.
Justice Bosanquet. — Right Hon. Sir John Bernard Bosanquet, Knight, a younger son of the second Samuel Bosanquet of Forest House, was born 2nd May 1773. He was called to the English Bar in 1804, and was made King’s Sergeant in 1827; he was standing counsel to the Bank of England. His law reports are authorities of the first class, being also annotated with learning and judgment. Though he confined his practice to the common law courts, he was familiar by study with chancery law, and the accuracy and fulness of his information was unsurpassed. He was knighted in 1830, on becoming a judge, and he took his seat as a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas. In 1833 he was made a Privy Councillor, and in 1835 was a Lord High Commissioner of the Great Seal — a compliment for which an interregnum as to the office of Lord Chancellor presented an opportunity. He was also a Commissioner for the improvement of the practice in the Superior Courts of Common Law, and a Commissioner of the Public Records. He died 25th September 1847. When, according to custom, on being made a Judge, he put his armorial bearings on painted glass in Sergeants’ Inn, he took his motto from Horace, Per damna, per cades, in acknowledgment of his prosperity arising from the Almighty’s care of a family that had given up their country for their faith.
[Edward Foss, in his Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England, says of Mr. Justice Bosanquet, that he was selected as arbitrator between the Crown and the Duke of Athol, to fix the amount of the Duke’s unsettled claims on resigning the sovereignty of the Isle of Man. “He published, without his name, a Letter of a Layman on the connection of the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse, embodying in a small compass, a great amount of research. He was a very considerable linguist, of accurate and various learning, and particularly fond of scientific enquiries.”]
Dupuis. — Thomas Sanders Dupuis, born in England on 5th November 1733, was the third son and fourth child of John Dupuis and Susannah, his wife, natives of
