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– 22 May 1913), was of Ireland. Born at 22 Merrion Square, Dublin, Gibson was the son

of William Gibson J.P. (1808–1872),

of Rockforest, County Dublin, by his first wife, Louisa, daughter of Joseph Grant,

barrister of Dublin. He was the

elder brother of John George

Gibson, who was also a distinguished lawyer and judge of the High

Court. He was educated at Trinity

College, Dublin, graduating BA in 1858, winning

the gold medal in History, English Literature and Political Science. He was

also an Auditor and a Gold Medallist of the College Historical Society,

and became its president in 1883. Having been called to the Irish bar in 1860, Gibson

was made an Irish Queen's

Counsel in 1872 and three years later was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Dublin University after

unsuccessfully contesting for Waterford. Enjoying the

patronage of Benjamin

Disraeli, Sir Stafford Northcote and Lord Randolph

Churchill, he was appointed Attorney-General

for Ireland in 1877, before being admitted to the Irish Privy

Council, and then appointed Lord

Chancellor of Ireland in 1885, becoming a British Privy Counsellor that same year. On

his appointment as Lord Chancellor, Gibson was raised to the peerage as Baron Ashbourne, 1885. He was

almost single-handedly responsible for the drafting of the Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act 1885 which

was commonly known as the Ashbourne Act. He

resigned the Lord Chancellor's office in February 1886 on the return of

the Liberals to

power, but was reappointed by Lord Salisbury in

August of that year. For the next twenty years (with a short interval of three

years when Gladstone returned

to power in 1892), Lord Ashbourne held office as Lord Chancellor of Ireland,

finally retiring at the age of 68. He was highly regarded as a judge even at a

time when the Irish Bench boasted such outstanding judges as Gerald

FitzGibbon, Hugh was in part at least due to his presidency that

the Irish Court

of Appeal gained a reputation as the strongest court ever to

sit in Ireland. agent Gerald Christie secured Ashbourne's services to take

the chair and introduce the journalist /politician's Dublin lecture on his

South African Adventures.