THE NEW JUDGE OF THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 49, 29 February 1864, Page 6 (Supplement)

THE NEW JUDGE OF THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(From the B'ohjsJTijjos.) Mr. Sergeant Shee lias" been appointed the new judge of the Court of Queens Bench, In the room of the late Mr. JustioeWightman, The new iitdgeis a Eoman Oatholio. Mr. Shee | is the eldest son of the late Mr. Joseph ' Shee; of Thomastown; in the county of Kilkenny, where he was "born in 1804. He was educated at the Boman Catholic College of Si Cuthbert, Durham, and at Edinburgh. Xn 1828 h& w&s called to the bar of ths Son, Society of iincoln's»inn» and selected the Heine Circuit, where he soon &!&« tingnished himself by his eloquence and skill 1 as an advocate, and in due time became the leader of the oircwitj which positson he held up to the • present time. In 1840 he was made a serjeant-at-law, and in 1858 Queen's Sergeant. In 184? he-- offered his services as a candidate for Parliamentary honors to the electors of Mary* lebone, but he was unsuccessful. In 1552 : he ■ was returned for his native > county (Kilkenny,) and continued^ to represent it until the general election of 1857, when he lost his seat, the electors returning his old colleague, Captain John Green, in conjunction with the Hon. Leopold Agar-Ellis. In 1859 he again . sought election, but Mr. Ellis and Captain G-reen were again returned, Mr. G-eorge Moore and Mr. Serjeant Shee being j the successful candidates. "While I holding his seat in Parliament the learned serjeant was a consistent advocate of liberal measures, and a firm supporter of Roman Catholic claims, although his religious views were never marked ■by bitterness or intolerance. He was married in 1836 to Mary, daughter of Sir J* Gordon, premier baronet of Scotland, but was left a widower about two years since. [There is, it appears, an inaccuracy in the foregoing. Mr. Justice Sftee's father was an Irishman, but came to England at an early period in life, and married a Miss Barell, belonging to a well-known family in Kent, and his son, now Mr. Justice Shee, was born at Finchley, Middlesex, in 2 804. It was a gentleman connected with Kent that addressed the meeting held at Penenden-heath when that county petitioned Parliament with reference to Roman Catholic emancipation. In his speech on the nomi-nation-day,, from Mary lebone hustings, in 184<7, he said, in reply to the taunt that he was an Irishman ; — " I was born in Mnchley ; but I have ' yet to learn that it is a crime in an li'ishman to aspire to enter that Parliain which Sheridan, aud Grattan, and Canning, and Wellington laid the foundations of this country's greatness."]