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Robert Marshall (Irish judge)

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156: 219:. There is a tradition that Marshall and Berkeley disobeyed a provision in the will that they publish all of Swift's correspondence with Vanessa, but in fact, no such provision seems to have existed. Marshall did preserve copies of the correspondence. Swift, though he had no quarrel with Berkeley, and indeed respected him, regarded Marshall (whom he called a "scoundrel"), as his enemy. Admittedly Swift had a notoriously poor opinion of lawyers in general. 186:(whom he nicknamed "Stella"); Swift may secretly have married Stella in 1716, although the truth of this is now impossible to determine. The quarrel arose when Vanessa apparently asked Swift not to see Stella again, and he refused. Vanessa, who was seriously ill with 214:
caused a good deal of surprise since it does not seem that she knew either man well (nor did they apparently know each other): indeed it has been suggested that she may never have met either of them. In the event much of the estate was dissipated in a
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of £30,000. She died childless in 1743. He outlived her by thirty years, despite his own increasing ill-health, which led to frequent visits to England in hope of a cure. He was buried in
119:. His practice was lucrative, though the bulk of what became a great fortune was undoubtedly due to his advantageous marriage to Mary Wooley. He sat in the 349: 143:
MP, the head of a family which played a leading role in the political life of Waterford for several generations. He became a judge of the
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in 1738 and Second Serjeant in 1741. As a barrister he made his reputation in the celebrated Annesley case, in which
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In 1723 the intense friendship between Jonathan Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh, for whom he created the name
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of Clonmel at intervals between 1727 and 1747, and served as Mayor of Clonmel four times. He was
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against the rival claim of his uncle, which is often said to be the inspiration for the novel
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and died a few months later, revoked the will she had made in Swift's favour and made a new
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Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Tipperary constituencies
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and was generally a reliable Government supporter; he was also
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He moved house several times before buying a country house at
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in 1729. He also took an interest in the affairs of
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Index

Esther Vanhomrigh
Jonathan Swift
Clonmel
County Tipperary
Kilkenny College
Middle Temple
Irish Bar
suicide
Monkstown, County Dublin
heiress
East Sheen
London
dowry
Christ Church Cathedral, Waterford
Third Serjeant
James Annesley
Earl of Anglesey
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Irish House of Commons
Clonmel
Recorder
High Sheriff of County Tipperary
County Waterford
Thomas Christmas
Court of Common Pleas (Ireland)

Vanessa
John Everett Millais
Esther Vanhomrigh

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