Sir James Chatterton, 1st Baronet (died 9 April 1806), was an Irish lawyer and politician, and the first of the Chatterton Baronets of Castle Mahon.

Life

He was the eldest son of Abraham Chatterton (died 1776), of

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, and his wife Martha Roche, daughter of Edmund Roche of Trabolgan. The Chatterton family had settled in Ireland during the reign of

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. Thomas Chatterton, the founder of the Irish branch of the family, was granted an estate at

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in County Louth in 1573. The family later acquired lands in

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. Chatterton entered the

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in 1770 and was called to the Bar in 1774. He sat in the

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, first for

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in 1781, and then for

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from 1783 to 1797. He was created a

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in 1801, presumably as a reward for supporting the Act of Union 1800. He was appointed Third Irish Serjeant in 1791 and Second Serjeant in 1793; he held the latter office until his death. He was also Keeper of the State Papers in Ireland: this office was apparently a sinecure.

Family

In 1790 Chatterton married Rebecca Lane (died 17 February 1838), daughter of Abraham Lane of Cork, by whom he had five children. Their first son, Sir William Abraham Chatterton (5 August 1794 – 1855), married on 3 August 1824, Henrietta-Georgiana, only child of the Reverend Lascelles Iremongor,

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of Winchester. He died without issue in 1855. His widow subsequently married Edward Heneage Dering of the

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on 1 June 1859. On William's death, his brother

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succeeded to the baronetcy. The three daughters of the marriage were: *Anne, who married the Reverend Richard Dickson, of Vermont,

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, and died in 1835 *Martha, who married A. E. Orpen, M. D. and died on 24 January 1857 **Their only daughter, Rebecca-Dulcibella, was married on 18 July 1867 to Marmion-Edward Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire. *Rebecca, who in 1826 married Charles Wedderburn Webster of the

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and died on 22 June 1858

Arms

References

*Debrett, John, ''Baronetage of England'', London 1840 *Hart, A. R. ''History of the King's Serjeants at law in Ireland'', Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2000 *Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ''Burke's Irish Family Records'', London, 1976 1806 deaths Politicians from Cork (city) Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies Irish MPs 1776–1783 Irish MPs 1783–1790 Irish MPs 1790–1797 Year of birth uncertain Members of the Middle Temple Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Serjeants-at-law (Ireland) Lawyers from Cork (city) 18th-century Irish lawyers {{UK-baronet-stub