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The office was vacant from 16 November 1921[22] and succeeded by the Attorney General of the Irish Free State on 31 January 1922. The office of Attorney General for Northern Ireland had been created in June 1921.
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Date of patent
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Date of appointment to office in next column
- ^ Restored to the position when the secluded members of the Rump Parliament were allowed in in February 1660
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj Date of Privy Seal
- ^ Date of the Treaty of Limerick
- ^ Attorney-General for Jacobite Ireland only after the appointment of Sir John Temple as Attorney-General for Williamite Ireland on 30 October 1690
- ^ Attorney-General for Williamite Ireland only until the Treaty of Limerick of 3 October 1691
- ^ "[W]hen the Irish administration came under the domination of the ultra-tory lord chancellor, Sir Constantine Phipps, he was dropped as attorney general in 1711 and emerged as one of the principal leaders of the opposition."
- ^ "In 1714 he was replaced as Irish attorney general in the whig purge which followed the accession of George I."
- ^ "on the accession of George I in 1714 was superseded as attorney-general, but was offered the place of a justice of the King’s Bench, which he declined"
- ^ "With the collapse of Lord North's government in March 1782, he was dismissed from office. Scott was generally believed to have known that he would be removed and to have decided to provoke his dismissal by asserting during the debates on legislative independence that Great Britain had no right to bind Ireland by acts of parliament"
- ^ "Disappointed at not being named chief justice of the king's bench, he retired and was created a baronet on 21 June 1803. King George III ascribed his resignation to ill-health and his weaknesses as a law officer."
- ^ "nor was he ever in the Irish or British House of Commons"
- ^ "In October 1805 Pitt made Plunket attorney-general, and Plunket retained that office in the ‘ministry of all the talents’. Hitherto, with official approval, he had treated the post as professional and non-political. Now it became a party and parliamentary one. He ... was urged by Lord Grenville to enter the House of Commons. ... early in 1807. He ... became an adherent of Lord Grenville ... Having identified himself with the whigs, he declined the request of the new tory administration that he retain the attorney-generalship."
- ^ "With all his present Toryism, he seems to have been then a Whig"
- ^ "something of a republican by nature, but fashioned by circumstances into a Tory"
- ^ he was one of the "Grenvillites who [in 1822] joined Liverpool's government"
- ^ "was [after 1798] allied with the tory party"
- ^ However, Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland does not mention him, and neither Elrington Ball's The Judges in Ireland, Volume 2, page 354 nor Pennefather's article in the Dictionary of National Biography mentions service in this office. "[T]he attorney-general-ship was ... offered to ... Edward Pennefather ... and on his declining to serve in a reform administration it was given on Pennefather's advice to ... Francis Blackburne".
- ^ "was a conservative in politics"
- ^ Cook, Chris; Keith, Brendan (1975). British Historical Facts, 1830-1900. London: Macmillan. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-349-01348-7.states that the office was vacant under Peel's Conservative government of 1834-35. However, Blackburne's article in the Dictionary of National Biography states that "He continued in that office until 1835, under Grey and during the initial short administrations of Melbourne and Peel." Also Blackburne, Edward (1874). Life of the Right Hon. Francis Blackburne: Late Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Macmillan and Co. p. 194. states that "Sir Robert Peel requested Blackburne to retain his office ... The Peel administration was destined to be of but short duration ... Melbourne was recalled to power ... Blackburne retired from office"
- ^ "though known to be a tory ... with a view to the Irish administration having a broad political base"
- ^ "was in politics a conservative"
- ^ He had unsuccessfully sought re-election for the parliamentary constituency of Dungarvan in 1868.
- ^ He unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of Londonderry City in 1872.
- ^ He had unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of Carrickfergus in 1874.
- ^ He had unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of Mallow in 1883.
- ^ He had unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of North Londonderry in 1885.
- ^ He had unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary constituency of West Derbyshire in 1892.
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography
- ^ Ball 1926, page 195.
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography
- ^ Dictionary of Irish Biography, citing History of Parliament
- ^ Aspinall 1968, page 100, section 2748.
- ^ Aspinall 1968, page 100, section 2746, note 2.
- ^ William Courthope, ed. (1838). Debrett's complete peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (22nd ed.). p. 652. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2009.
- ^ a b "Plunket, William Conyngham, first Baron Plunket". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/22415. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Sheil 1855, page 47.
- ^ Sheil 1855, page 59.
- ^ cited in Webb, Alfred (1878). A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: M. H Gill & Son. p. 466.
- ^ Ball 1926, page 347.
- ^ Cook 1975, p. 4.
- ^ Ball 1926, page 274.
- ^ Ball 1926, page 354.
- ^ Smith, G. B.; Hogan, Daire. "Blackburne, Francis (1782?–1867)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2514. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Ball 1926, page 356.
- ^ The transition from the Tory Party to the Conservative Party is considered to have occurred with the Tamworth Manifesto in December 1834
- ^ "Brewster, Abraham". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3370. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Atkinson, John, Baron Atkinson". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30495. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Butler, David; Butler, Gareth (1994). British Political Facts, 1900–1994. Macmillan. p. 9. ISBN 0-333-52617-1.