Edmund Hayes (judge)
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1804
Edmund Hayes QC | |
|---|---|
| Solicitor-General for Ireland | |
| In office 1858–1859 | |
| Preceded by | Henry George Hughes |
| Succeeded by | John George |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edmund Bradshaw Hayes 1804 |
| Died | April 29, 1867 |
| Spouse | (1) Grace Shaw (2) Mary Harriet Tranchell |
| Parent | William Hayes |
Edmund Hayes QC (1804 – 29 April 1867), was an Irish judge.[1] In 1858 he became Solicitor-General for Ireland.
Hayes was birn in 1804, the eldest son of William Hayes of Millmount, County Down. He was educated at the Belfast Academical Institution, and in 1820 entered Trinity College Dublin, where he proceeded B.A. in 1825, and LL.B. and LL.D. in 1832. In 1827, he was called to the Irish Bar and joined the north-eastern circuit, but subsequently transferred himself to the home circuit.[2]
Hayes was appointed by the benchers of the King's Inns as lecturer in constitutional and criminal law. He was appointed a Q.C. in 1852, and was Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland under Lord Derby's first administration, and again in 1858, and was subsequently promoted to be Irish Solicitor-General. In 1859, he succeeded Philip Cecil Crampton in the Court of Queen's Bench (Ireland), but was compelled in 1866 to absent himself owing to ill-health. He resigned in Michaelmas term of that year, and died at his house at Bray, County Wicklow, 29 April 1867.[2]
