2-888-033 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

W. Keogh, Esq., M.P. for Athlone, 1850. Portrait of Irish politician and judge William Keogh, from a photograph by '...Kilburn, of Regent-street....[Keogh] published the "Practice of the Court of Chancery," which continues to be the text book of the court. He joined the Western Circuit, and at the bar, as in college, soon distinguished himself...: until the period of his entering Parliament, he had also an extensive practice both in the Rolls Court and Court of Chancery...He first spoke in Parliament upon the exclusion of Roman Catholics from the jury struck for the first trials of Smith O'Brien and others for sedition, dwelling upon the practice as in itself unconstitutional, unjust, and calculated to perpetuate and increase the religious and party animosities of Ireland'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.