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John Bennett (Irish politician)

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94: 112:. Scott was determined to dominate the Court of King's Bench. From the beginning of his tenure as Chief Justice, he regarded Bennett, who was not a man inclined to take a subservient role, as his enemy: "one adverse to me", and apparently tried to block his appointment to the Bench. Scott regarded another colleague, William Henn, Bennett's cousin, as "at best a fool". Only after Bennett's death and Henn's retirement was Scott able to remould his Court as he wished. 121: 436: 222: 441: 86:, although the precise dates between which he held this office are uncertain; most probably he was Recorder from 1783 to 1787. In the latter year, he was appointed a justice of the 67: 71: 426: 63: 214: 421: 416: 401: 451: 87: 446: 411: 406: 104:
Elrington Ball states that Bennett was a man noted for his independence of mind: as such he was bound to clash with the formidable
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in 1758. He entered politics but was not at first successful in his political career: although he was elected to the
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Bennett married Jane Lovett, daughter of Jonathan Lovett senior, of the prominent landowning family of Liscombe Park,
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in 1825, leaving issue, including Reverend Robert Delap, who inherited Monellan Castle, and Mary Ann, who married
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lawyer". He had several children, including Susanna (died 1858), who married the celebrated writer
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Dissolute Characters: Irish literary history through Balzac, Sheridan le Fanu, Yeats and Bowen
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Waterford constituencies
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Rhoda Broughton, the well-known novelist; she was the judge's great-granddaughter
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies
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in 1776, he was promptly unseated. In 1783 he stood for Parliament again both
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and judge. His granddaughter married the celebrated writer Sheridan le Fanu.
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Sheridan Le Fanu, the celebrated author, the judge's grandson by marriage
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Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Scotland and Ireland
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The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham
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Susan (Susannah), who married Samuel Francis Delap of
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Index

barrister
Cork
William Henn
County Clare
Trinity College Dublin
Middle Temple
Irish Bar
Irish House of Commons
Dungarvan
Castlemartyr
Charleville
Recorder of Cork
Court of King's Bench (Ireland)

John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell
Lord Chief Justice of Ireland
John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell

Soulbury
Buckinghamshire
County Tipperary
Macroom
Lovett baronets
Nenagh
heiress
QC
Tory
Sheridan le Fanu
Denbigh
Rhoda Broughton

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