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228: 97: 302: 271:: but his English colleagues advised him to refuse it, on the ground that he would shortly be offered a place on the English Bench. Hale admitted that the prospect of being Irish Lord Chief Justice was tempting enough to "perplex him", but his preference was to go back to England. Although he had been happy enough in Ireland, he admitted that "it is impossible for me to forget England or not to wish to return there". 260:: the roof of Monaghan courthouse, which like many Irish courthouses of the time was in an appalling state of repair, fell in. It narrowly missed the judges, who however escaped injury. Hale adjourned proceedings to outside the building and continued the assize. 247:
In 1722 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and earned a high reputation in Ireland for integrity and efficiency, despite an initially hostile reception, "the usual Dublin railing". In 1725 he and the junior Baron,
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in London, had owned their estate in King's Walden since the sixteenth century, and Bernard's own descendants were still living there in Victorian times. Bernard's grand-uncle, also called
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in 1705. He became one of the leaders of the English Bar, and was one of its top earners. He later transferred to
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Azure a chevron bretessed Or a martlet for difference (below the dexter chief point Or).
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Bernard's daughter-in-law Mary Chaloner, wife of John Hale, painted by Joshua Reynolds
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He went back to England in the autumn of 1725 to take up office as a
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William Hale (died 1793), who married Elizabeth Farnaby, daughter of
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He married Anne Thoresby (or Thursby) daughter of John Thoresby of
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in 1702: he subsequently became a fellow of Peterhouse. He entered
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The judge's sister Catherine Hoskins (1673-1703) was the mother of
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Later the same year, it was rumoured that he was to be appointed
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and his wife Mary Elwes, daughter of Jeremy (Jeremiah) Elwes of
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A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry
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Bernard Hale (British Army officer)
Bernard Hale (priest)
barrister
Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer
King's Walden
Hertfordshire
William Hale
MP
Roxby, Lincolnshire
grocers
Bernard Hale
Archdeacon of Ely
Catherine Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
William Plumer

Bernard Hale
Eton College
Peterhouse, Cambridge
B.A.
M.A.
Gray's Inn
called to the Bar
Lincoln's Inn
Northampton
Sir Charles Farnaby, 1st Baronet
Sir Edward Dering, 7th Baronet
James Grimston, 2nd Viscount Grimston
General Bernard Hale
Richard Rigby
Francis Hale Rigby

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