Robert Doyne (1705–1768)
Robert Doyne may refer to: * Sir Robert Doyne (1651–1733), Irish politician and judge * Robert Walter Doyne Robert Walter Doyne (1857–1916) was an Anglo-Irish ophthalmologist. He was born in Monart, County Wexford, Ireland, second son of the Reverend Philip Walter Doyne (died 1861), vicar of Monart, and Emily Sophia Richards, daughter of John Godda ...

Sir Robert Doyne
Sir Robert Doyne (1651–1733) was an Irish barrister and politician. Judge He was member of the Irish House of Commons for New Ross from 1692 to 1695, and later a distinguished judge who served as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer from 1695 to 1703 and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas from 1703 to 1714. Ball p.62 He regularly attended the Irish House of Lords to give legal advice, and in late 1696 when the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland fell vacant, he was one of the unsuccessful candidates for the position. In 1714, on the Queen's death, like all senior judges in Ireland appointed by Queen Anne, he was removed by the new administration. While allegations of corruption were made against him, his removal seems to have been a simple matter of his political allegiance.Ball pp.86-7 On the most contentious charge against him, concerning his role and the role of the judiciary generally in the bitter dispute between central government and Dublin Corporation, whi ...
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