Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor, O'Conor Don (26 October 1869 – 22 February 1917) was an Irish lawyer and hereditary
Chief of the Name O'Conor.
O'Conor was the son of
Charles Owen O'Conor
Charles Owen O'Conor, O'Conor Don PC (Ire) (; 7 May 1838 – 30 June 1906),John P. McCarthyIreland: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present p. 379 was an Irish politician.
Life
The eldest son of Denis O'Conor, he was educated at ...
and Georgina Mary Perry. He was educated at
Downside School
Downside School (formally The College of St Gregory the Great, Downside but simply referred to as Downside) is an 11–18 mixed, Roman Catholic, independent, day and boarding school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Somerset, England. It was establish ...
and the
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a collegiate university, federal Public university, public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The ...
, graduating in law. He was called to the bar at
King's Inn. In 1898 he served as
High Sheriff of Roscommon, and in 1906 he was appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Roscommon in succession to his father. He was a
Justice of the Peace for County Roscommon and was admitted to the
Privy Council of Ireland
His or Her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland, commonly called the Privy Council of Ireland, Irish Privy Council, or in earlier centuries the Irish Council, was the institution within the Dublin Castle administration which exercised formal executi ...
in 1916.
References
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1869 births
1917 deaths
19th-century Irish people
20th-century Irish people
Alumni of the University of London
High sheriffs of Roscommon
Irish barristers
Irish chiefs of the name
Irish justices of the peace
Lord-lieutenants of Roscommon
Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
Denis
Denis may refer to:
People
* Saint Denis of Paris, 3rd-century Christian martyr and first bishop of Paris
* Denis the Areopagite, Biblical figure
* Denis, Bishop of Győr (13th century), Hungarian prelate
* Denis, son of Ampud (died 1236), bar ...
People educated at Downside School