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- 1809-1852 (Creation)
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344 pp.
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Matthew Barrington was born on 21 May 1788 in Limerick as the eldest of five sons and two daughters of Joseph Barrington and Mary née Baggott. He was educated in Limerick and King's Inns and established a highly successful solicitor's practice in Dublin and Limerick. In 184, he was appointed a crown solicitor for Munster. From the 1840s he acted as solicitor and adviser to the Great Southern and Western Railway and was instrumental for the establishment of the railway station known as Limerick Junction. He was the founder of Barrington's Hospital and City of Limerick Infirmary (1831), the first general hospital in Limerick to provide for the poor. He owned extensive estates in Limerick and was the builder of the massive Norman revival castle, Glenstal. Matthew Barrington died on 1 April 1861 and is buried in St Mary's cathedral in Limerick.
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Thick folio ledger bound in full contemporary calf, listing charges and payments to and from clients of Sir Matthew Barrington's legal firm in Limerick city and providing details of the various legal affairs in which they were involved. Clients listed in the ledger include James Alton and wife; Francis Arthur (merchant and developer); Athlunkard Bridge (costs of act of parliament); Ballina Improvement Bill; Robert Baker (merchant); Bellingham & Jones (wine merchants); Barrington’s Hospital; Benjamin Barrington; Croker Barrington of Cork; trustees of the Earl of Bective; Major General [Richard?] Bourke; Augustine and Elizabeth Butler; Archdeacon S. Butson; Nicholson Calvert MP; Christopher [Butson], Bishop of Clonfert; James George Cholmondeley; Owen Clancy (woollen draper); Andrew Connolly (boot maker); John Copley; trustees of Viscount Courtenay; Catharine Creed; Sir Aubrey De Vere; James Doyle & Co. of Limerick (founderers); James Duggan M.D.; Earl of Dunraven; Michael Eagan & Co. (merchants); Thomas S. Eyre; Messrs Fisher, Mark & Fisher [later Mark, Fisher & Mark]; Thomas Fitzgibbon (Collector of Excise); Viscount Glentworth; Henry M. Francis Goold; Reverend Standish Grady; Reverend Edward Hartigan; John Hartigan; William Hartigan; Marquis of Headford; Sir Robert Hodson; Alexander Hoskins of Lincolns Inns Fields, London; John Howly; Irish Society; Thomas Izon and Smith, Starton & Smith; representatives of William Johnson; trustees of Lord Kingsland; John Kirwan & Sons Esquires of London; Abraham Lane, Assignee of Thomas & Timothy Sherlock (bankers); Earl of Limerick; Limerick Bridge Commissioners; Limerick Chamber of Commerce; Limerick Grand Jury; Limerick Taxation Bill; Francis Lloyd; Thomas Lloyd; John McArdell (cloth merchant); Alexander McDonnell; John Hartigan McKnight; John McNamara of Limerick (merchant); Right Honourable George Massy; Robert Maunsell the younger and wife; Robert Hedges Maunsell of Limerick; Eliza May; assignees of Meade & Fennell (bankers), Earl of Morley; John and George Nimmo, executors of Alexander Nimmo; John O’Dell; Alexander Perring of London; Herman Jacob Poe; John and Arthur H. C. Pollock; Abel Ram; Right Honourable Thomas Spring Rice MP; John Norris Russell (merchant); John Staunton; Michael J. Staunton; Abraham C. Stritch; John Taylor of Dublin; Edward Turner; Thomas Philips Vokes; Mathew Carlisle Wilder; and Messrs Willington & Maunsell (merchants). Some 20 pages have been removed at the front of the book, presumably an earlier index which P97/2 now replaces.
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- English