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WHITESIDE, JAMES (18o4--1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 608 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WHITESIDE, See also:JAMES (18o4--1876) , Irish See also:judge, son of See also:William Whiteside, a clergyman of the See also:Church of See also:Ireland, was See also:born on the See also:lath of See also:August 1804, and was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Dublin, being called to the Irish See also:bar in 183o. He very rapidly acquired a large practice, and after taking See also:silk in 1842 he gained a reputation for forensic See also:oratory surpassing that of all his See also:con-temporaries, and rivalling that of his most famous predecessors of the 18th See also:century. He defended See also:Daniel O'Connell in the See also:state trial of 1843, and William See also:Smith O'Brien in 1848; and his greatest See also:triumph was in the Yelverton See also:case in 1861. He was elected member for See also:Enniskillen in 1851, and in 1859 became member for Dublin University. In See also:parliament he was no less successful as a See also:speaker than at the bar, and in 1852 was appointed See also:solicitor-See also:general for Ireland in the first See also:administration of the See also:earl of See also:Derby, becoming See also:attorney-general in 1858, and again in 1866. In the same See also:year he was appointed See also:chief See also:justice of the See also:Queen's See also:Bench; and he died on the 25th of See also:November 1876. Whiteside was a See also:man of handsome presence, attractive See also:personality and cultivated tastes. In 1848, after a visit to See also:Italy, he published Italy in the Nineteenth Century; and in 187o he collected and republished some papers contributed many years before to See also:periodicals, under the See also:title See also:Early Sketches of Eminent Persons. In 1833 Whiteside married See also:Rosetta, daughter of William See also:Napier, and See also:sister of See also:Sir See also:Joseph Napier (1804-1882), See also:lord See also:chancellor of Ireland. See J. R. O'Flanagan, The Irish Bar (See also:London, 1879).

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