LORD CARSON MEMORIAL

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1933, Page 7

LORD CARSON MEMORIAL

UNVEILING OF NEW ULSTER HOUSE.

VOLUNTEERS COMMEMORATED.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright London, July 9.

The Bishop of Down to-day unveiled a Statue of Lord Cai-son, erected on the processional road outside the new Ulster Parliament buildings. It bears panels commemorating the formation of the Ulster Volunteers.

In the days when Ireland formed the main news day after day, Lord Carson was as prominant as anyone in the storm in tha,t country. Lord Carson was bom in Dublin in 1854, his father - being vice-president of the Institute of Auctioneers. The future peer graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1876, and went to the Irish Bar the following year. He had not a penny, and for a while he eked out his earnings at the Bar by coaching, law students. Gradually he got into practice, and the Attorney-Gen-eral, Mr. Peter O’Brien, employed him to conduct many of the Crimes Act prosecutions during the Arthur Balfour regime. He showed conspicuous ability, and took silk in 1889. He was elected member of Parliament for Trinity College in 1892, became Solicitor-General for Ireland the same year, went to practise at the English Bar in 1893, and was soon in the first flight of English nisi prius advocates. He became British Solicitor-General iri 1900, Attorney-Gen-eral in 1915, and was appointed a Lord of Appeal in 1921, Lord Carson had great qualities that made him possibly the first advocate at the English Bar, as well as a great political force. A knowledge of human nature, an instinct in the detection of falsehood, and tenacity in following up a clue made him a master in the art of cross-examination. In his speech in the law courts he was clear and concise. .He had a real sense of proportion, a priceless quality indispensable to legal success, while his arguments were logical, well-balanced, never lop-sided. Loyalists from all parts of Ireland sought Loid Carson’s advice, help and sympathy, and never sought in vain.