Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne was an Irish lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was born at his father's Dublin home, 22 Merrion Square, the son of William Gibson J.P. , of Rockforest, Co. Tipperary and Gaulstown, Co. Meath, by his first wife, Louisa, daughter of Joseph Grant, Barrister of Dublin. Gibson was educated at Trinity College, graduating BA in 1858. He was also an Auditor and a Gold Medallist of the College Historical Society, and became its president in 1883.

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  • Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne was an Irish lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was born at his father's Dublin home, 22 Merrion Square, the son of William Gibson J.P. , of Rockforest, Co. Tipperary and Gaulstown, Co. Meath, by his first wife, Louisa, daughter of Joseph Grant, Barrister of Dublin. Gibson was educated at Trinity College, graduating BA in 1858. He was also an Auditor and a Gold Medallist of the College Historical Society, and became its president in 1883. Having been called to the Irish bar in 1860, Gibson was made an Irish Queen's Counsel in 1872 and three years later was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Dublin University. He was appointed Attorney-General for Ireland in 1877, being admitted to the Privy Council of Ireland, and was finally appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1885, becoming a British Privy Counsellor that same year. On his appointment as Lord Chancellor, Gibson was created Baron Ashbourne, of Ashbourne in the County of Meath in 1885. He resigned office in February 1886 on the return of the Liberals to power, but was re-appointed by Lord Salisbury in August of that year. For the next twenty years (with a short interval of three years when Gladstone returned to power in 1892), Lord Ashbourne held office as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, finally retiring at the age of 68. In1900, Winston Churchill's agent Gerald Christie secured Ashbourne's services to take the chair and introduce the journalist /politician's Dublin lecture on his South African Adventures. Baron Ashbourne had in 1868 married Frances Marie Adelaide Colles (1849-1926), daughter of Henry Jonathan Cope Colles and his wife Elizabeth Mayne. The couple produced four sons, the eldest son and heir being William Gibson, 2nd Baron Ashbourne, and four daughters - one of whom, Violet Gibson made an attempt to assassinate Mussolini in 1926. He died in London in 1913 and was cremated at Golders Green crematorium, his ashes being placed in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin.
  • Edward Gibson, 1. baron Ashbourne, brytyjski prawnik i polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, minister w rządach lorda Beaconsfielda, lorda Salisbury'ego i Arthura Balfoura. Wykształcenie odebrał w dublińskim Trinity College. Uczelnię ukończył w 1858 r. Był członkiem College Historical Society, a w 1883 r. został jego prezesem. W 1860 r. rozpoczął praktykę adwokacką w irlandzkiej korporacji, a w 1872 r. został Irlandzkim Radcą Królowej. W 1875 r. został wybrany do brytyjskiej Izby Gmin jako reprezentant okręgu Dublin University. W 1877 r. został członkiem Tajnej Rady Irlandii, a w 1885 r. brytyjskiej Tajnej Rady. W tym samym roku otrzymał tytuł 1. baron Ashbourne i zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. W latach 1877-1880 był prokuratorem generalnym dla Irlandii. W 1885 r. został Lordem Kanclerzem Irlandii. Zrezygnował z tego stanowiska w lutym 1886 r. , kiedy premierem został liberał Gladstone. Na swoje stanowisko powrócił po upadku tego rządu w sierpniu 1886 r. W 1892 r. Ashbourne ponownie utracił to stanowisko, kiedy liberałowie wygrali wybory parlamentarne. Odzyskał je po powrocie konserwatystów do władzy w 1895 r. i sprawował je do upadku konserwatywnego gabinetu w 1905 r. Od 1868 r. był żonaty Frances Marie Adelaide Colles. Para miała razem czterech synów i cztery córki. Najstarszy syn, William, odziedziczył tytuł barona. Jedna z córkek Ashbourne'a, Violet, dokonała w 1926 r. nieudanego zamachu na Mussoliniego. Lord Ashbourne zmarł w 1913 r. Jego ciało poddano kremacji w Golders Green, a prochy pochowano na dublińskim cmentarzu Mount Jerome.
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  • Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne was an Irish lawyer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was born at his father's Dublin home, 22 Merrion Square, the son of William Gibson J.P. , of Rockforest, Co. Tipperary and Gaulstown, Co. Meath, by his first wife, Louisa, daughter of Joseph Grant, Barrister of Dublin. Gibson was educated at Trinity College, graduating BA in 1858. He was also an Auditor and a Gold Medallist of the College Historical Society, and became its president in 1883.
  • Edward Gibson, 1. baron Ashbourne, brytyjski prawnik i polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, minister w rządach lorda Beaconsfielda, lorda Salisbury'ego i Arthura Balfoura. Wykształcenie odebrał w dublińskim Trinity College. Uczelnię ukończył w 1858 r. Był członkiem College Historical Society, a w 1883 r. został jego prezesem. W 1860 r. rozpoczął praktykę adwokacką w irlandzkiej korporacji, a w 1872 r. został Irlandzkim Radcą Królowej. W 1875 r.
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  • Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne
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