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Thom's Irish Who's Who/de Vere, Robert Stephen Vere

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DE VERE, Robert Stephen Vere, B.A., LL.B. (Cantab.), J.P., Co. Limerick; Barrister Inner Temple, 1898. Educ.: Charterhouse; Trinity College, Cambridge. Served in Paget's Horse, South African War (Queen's Medal); District Commissioner, Gold Coast, 1903-5; Legal Adviser and Acting Chief Justice, Seychelles, 1906-8; received Commission in 5th Batt. Royal Sussex Regt., Feb. 1915: Military Censor, British Expeditionary Force, Aug., 1915 . Pubns.: Articles in Nineteenth Century and Law Quarterly. Recns.: hunting, sailing. Eldest son of late Major Aubrey Stephen Vere O'Brien. 60th Rifles, b. 1872; m. 1906, Isabel Catherine, dau. of late Rt. Rev. H. C. Moule, Bishop of Durham; assumed name of De Vere instead of O'Brien, 1899. Res.: Curragh Chase, Adare, Co. Limerick. Clubs: Wellington, London; County, Limerick.