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William Scott (Irish lawyer)

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His career seems to have been uneventful. At a time when all public figures, including judges, were very much in the public gaze, he seems to have aroused no strong feelings, for good or bad.
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in 1696 by King William, who had been greatly impressed by a sermon he preached, and named the estate after the King. William's mother was the daughter of John McNeill of
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as a Puisne Baron. He held this office until his death. On 13 December 1771 Scott and fellow Barons of the Exchequer
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He was the only son of Rev. Gideon Scott and Jane McNeill. His father, an Oxford man, came to Ireland as an
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Londonderry constituencies
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He married Hannah Gledstanes, daughter of Thomas Gledstanes, and had three sons:
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James, who inherited Willsborough and married Catherine Leslie, daughter of
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Thomas (died 1770), who was briefly Recorder of Londonderry;
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The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes)
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in 1735. In 1759 he was made a Puisne Justice of the
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Index

army chaplain
William III of England
Ulster
County Londonderry
Ballintoy
County Antrim
James Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute
Raphoe
Trinity College Dublin
Middle Temple
called to the Bar
Irish House of Commons
city of Londonderry
Prime Serjeant
Irish Bar
Recorder
Derry
Court of King's Bench (Ireland)
Court of Exchequer (Ireland)
Foster
Smyth
Lord Chancellor
Lifford
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Hamilton
Letters Patent
James Leslie
Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe

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