Thom's Irish Who's Who/Barton, Right Hon. Sir Dunbar Plunket

BARTON, Right Hon. Sir Dunbar Plunket, Bart. (Unit. Kgd, 1918), M.A. (Oxon.), P.C. (1918); was educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he was President of the Oxford Union: called to the Irish Bar, 1880; appointed King's Inns Professor (Law of Personal Property, Practice, Pleading, and Evidence), 1885; re-appointed King's Inns Professor (Law of Personal Property, Contract, and Tort), 1888; appointed Q.C., 1889; a Bencher of the King's Inns, 1892; called to the English Bar, 1893; a Bencher of Gray's Inn, 1898; was M.P. for Mid-Armagh Division of Co. Armagh, 1891-1900; first elected, unopposed, 1891; re-elected, unopposed, 1892, 1895, and 1898 on being appointed Solicitor-General. Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1898-1900; a Judge King's Bench Division, High Court of Justice, 1900-04, transferred to the Chancery Division to succeed the Vice-Chancellor of Ireland, 1904: resigned, 1918. A member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland, 1909; a Commissioner of Irish Lights, 1918: a member of the Irish War Aims Committee, 1918; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Irish National War Memorial, 1919; a Chairman of the Industrial Court and Member of War Compensation Court; eldest son of the late Thomas Henry and the Hon. Charlotte Barton, dau. of 3rd Lord Plunket; b. 29th Oct., 1853; m. 5th October, 1900, Mary, dau. of late Joseph Manly, has issue one son. Clubs: Athenaeum, Carlton and Constitutional, London; Kildare Street, Sackville Street, and University, Dublin.