David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ The Judge’s father married a cultivated Irish lady, named Daly, and had many children, but was in straitened circumstances until a brother died, and left him £30,000, amassed in India. The Ulster Journal states that Louis, the future Judge, was born in the County of Waterford, near Clonmel. Mr. J. Roderick O’Flanagan, author of “The Irish Bar,” claims him as an Ulster man, and a pupil of the Diocesan School of Armagh. He gained a scholarship in Trinity College, Dublin, in 1799. He became a student of law, and kept the terms both in London and Dublin, and was called to the Irish Bar in 1806. ”

“ He held the scales of justice with a firm and steady hand, and, as between the Crown and the subject, there was no inclination of the scales to either side. He was very social and hospitable, and entertained his friends either at his town house in Granby Row, Rutland Square, or at his country villa [at Clontarf] . ”