Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
1837–1913
Lawyer and politician. BA, Trinity College, Dublin, 1858; called to the Irish bar, 1860. MP, Trinity College, 1875; attorney-general for Ireland, 1877. Took a peerage in 1885, and as Baron Ashbourne, was lord chancellor of Ireland in every Conservative government from 1885 until 1905.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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