KEOGH

William Nicholas (eld. son of William M. Keogh of Corkip, co. Roscommon, clerk of the crown for the city and co. of Kilkenny, d. July 1865). b. Gardiner st. Dublin 7 Dec. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., LL.D. 1866; called to bar in Ireland 1840, went the Con naught circuit; M.P. for Athlone Aug. 1847 to Feb. 1856; Q.C. 23 May 1850; solicitor gen. for Ireland, Dec. 1852 to March 1855, attorney gen. March 1855 to Feb. 1856; P.C. Ireland 1855; justice of the common pleas March 1856, of the common pleas division 1 Jany. 1878 to death; with Mr. Justice Fitzgerald tried the Fenian prisoners 1865; tried the Galway county election petition 1872 and henceforth was denounced by the Roman Catholics and went in fear of his life; author of Ireland under Lord de Grey 1844; Ireland imperialised; Milton’s prose, a lecture 1863; with M. J. Barry A treatise on the practice of the court of chancery in Ireland 1840. d. Bingen on the Rhine 30 Sep. 1878. bur. cemetery of R.C. ch. at Bonn 3 Oct. Sullivan’s New Ireland (1877) i 331–53; O. J. Burke’s Anecdotes of Con naught circuit (1885) 255–60; Law mag. and law review , iv 62–72 (1878); Irish Law times , xii 498–500 (1878); I.L.N. xvi 261 (1850), portrait ; Graphic , vi 90, 95 (1872), portrait .