The death took place in Dublin on February 14 of the Right Hon, Christopher Palles, who was for over 40 years Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Ireland Christopher alles, Privy Ccunoiller, in both England and Ireland, and Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland from, 1874 to 1916, was actually and really entitled to the distinction of the "Last of the Barons" erroneously applied in some previous instances. With his retirement the ancient indicia] institution finally disappeared in accordance with the provisions of the Supreme Court of licature Act of 1837. He was the son of Andrew Christopher Palles, of Little Mount-Pajles, in County Cavan, and was born on Christmas Day, 1831. His early education was received at Clongawes Wood College, an academy which occupies the same pos: tion in Ireland which Stonyhurst does in England. On leaving school he entered Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1852, obtain-in a Senior Moderatorship and gold medal in mathematics, Called to the Irish Bar in 1853, he enjoyed an enormous practice, and had the reputation of being one of the soundest, if not the most brilliant, lawyers of a period when the Bench and Bar of Ireland were pecularly prolific of great_men. such as Whiteside, Brewster, Ball, Butt, and Sullivan. His official advancement was singularly rapid, for he received both the Solicitor Generalship and the Attorneyship in the same year 1872, snd.was later. elevated to the Bench two years
Apart from his profession, his life was uneventful, and he never took any prominent part in politics, His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. G. T. Edkins, Mr.
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