James Anthony Lawson

Life
1817-1887; BA TCD, 1838; Whateley prof. of political economy, 1840-5; Irish bar, 1840; LLD, Dublin, 1850; QC, 1857; legal advisor to crown in Ireland, 1858-59; bencher King’s Inns, 1861; solicitor-gen. 1861; attorney-gen. 1865; Irish privy councillor, 1865; MP Portarlington, 1865-68; justice of common pleas, 1868-82; Queen’s bench, 1882-87; DCL Oxon, 1884; published lectures on political economy. ODNB

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