Thom's Irish Who's Who/Andrews, Right Hon. William Drennan

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Thom's Irish Who's Who
Andrews, Right Hon. William Drennan
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ANDREWS, Right Hon. William Drennan, P.C. (Irld., 1897); LL.D., (T.C.D., 1860); Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, Exchequer Division, 1882-1909 (merged in Queen's Bench Division 1897), in succession to the Hon. Francis A. Fitzgerald, second Baron of the Exchequer. Assigned to business of the late Probate and Matrimonial Division (1897). Resigned his office of Judge, 1909, and was elected an Hon. Bencher of King's Inns, 1910. Called to the Irish Bar, 1855; appointed Q.C., 1872; went the north-east Circuit. Second son of the late John Andrews, Esq., of Comber, Co. Down; b. 1832; m. 1857, Eliza (d. 1901), dau. of the late John Galloway, Esq., of Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Res.: 51 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin.