DEATH OF JONATHAN HENN, ESQ., Q.C.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 27, 1 November 1873, Page 12

DEATH OF JONATHAN HENN, ESQ., Q.C.

On Tuesday, July 22, says the • Dublin Freeman," st the advanced ?$k ?-,, yeat 2' Mr J J2?*thftn Henn, Q.O. died at bis residence,'* Clifton Villa, Bray. With the demise of the learned gentleman, there has passed away almost the last of the.old race of lawyers wha were "called " in the early years of the present century, and practised under the ancient systems which, both at law and equity, yielded the largest incomes, men say, that hare ever been earned at the Bar. Mr Henn assume i the stuff gown in 1811 an very soon got into business, which year by year increased. He was an accurate lawyer, an able and judicious adTocate, and his genial per* sonal qualities attached to him a large circle of professional and private friends. In 1835 he became a Queen's Counsel, and in 1843 he waft associated with Sheil, Whiteside, O'Hagan, Fitzgibbon, and Macdonosk m defending O'ConneU and his fellow prisoners of State, who were prosecuted by the Attorney-General of the day. For some time later Mr flenn continued to practise, but for the last 20 years he did not appear in court, and his name had almost passed out of the memory of a large section of our latter-day lawyers, whose profession half a century ago had amongst its foremost members, the venerable and re« spected gentleman who on Tuesday died in the fulness of years.