He was born at Cork, the son of a local merchant. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and was called to the Irish bar in 1840 and to the English bar in 1847. He obtained a fair practice in criminal cases. In 1868 he became a QC and a bencher of Gray's Inn. He practised on the Oxford circuit and in the Central Criminal Court and his most famous cases included:
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