James Anthony Lawson, 1817-1887.
James Anthony Lawson was third holder of the Whately Professor of Political
Economy at Trinity College Dublin, from 1841
to 1846.
After his tenure as an economist, Lawson became a barrister, then
rising to solicitor general and attorney general for Ireland, and later
became a judge in the Common Pleas division of the High Court of
Ireland. At the height of the Land League agitation,
empowered by a new act of parliament, Judge Lawson controversially
handed out convictions on agitators accused of agrarian crimes
(previously seen as political crimes, they were rarely convicted
before). Patrick Delaney, a former convict, member of the "Irish
Invincibles" secret society, was caught stalking Lawson with a revolver
in the streets of Dublin on November 11, 1882 and charged with
conspiracy to murder Lawson. He was subsequently sentenced to ten
years. Delaney had been previously implicated in the notorious
Phoenix Park Murders in May, 1882, and his arrest for Lawson's case
helped spur the government to track down the remaining killers.
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Major Works of James A. Lawson
- Five Lectures on Political Economy delivered before the University of
Dublin in Michaelmas term 1843, 1844 [bk]
- "On the Connexion between Statistics and Political Economy", 1848, Papers
Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society [bk]
- "On the policy of direct or indirect taxation", 1849, Transactions of
the Dublin Statistical Society
- "Statistics to illustrate the kinds of business which Joint Stock
Companies are suited to carry on, especially with respect to investments in
land, read Feb 1852", 1852, Papers Read Before the Dublin Statistical Society
[bk]
- "The Over-population fallacy considered", 1849, Papers Read Before
the Dublin Statistical Society [bk]
- "Report on the Patent Laws", 1851, Papers Read before
the DSS [bk]
- On the Present State of the Law and Practice in Ireland with Respect
to Wills and the Administration of Assets, 1852 [bk]
- "On the Agricultural Statistics of Ireland, read Apr 1854", Papers Read
before
the DSS, [bk]
- "Address delivered at the opening of the 11th Address of the Society",
1858, J of DSS (Mar),
p.142
- Hymni usitati Latine redditi: with other verses, 1883 [bk]?
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Resources on James A. Lawson
- The Endowment of Maynooth neither morally right nor politically
expedient, a letter addressed to James Anthony Lawson, LL.D., Q.C., in reply
to his address to the electors of the University of Dublin, and his speech
at the election, by Rev. Edward Nagle, 1857 [bk]
- Queen vs. Delaney, Jan 2, 1883, described Irish Law Journal, (Jan
6, 1883
p.2),described in Irish Law Time, Mar 17, 1883,
p.143
- Wikipedia
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