David Robert Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore PC, KC was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.
"hereditary eloquence" Plunket as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, May 1880
The grave of David Plunket and other family members at Putney Vale Cemetery, London, in 2015
The Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland was a Law Officer of the English Crown in nineteenth-century Ireland. The office lapsed in the 1880s, due apparently to concerns that it was becoming
David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore
…called to the Irish Bar in 1862. After practising on the Munster Circuit for a number of years, Plunket was made a Queen's Counsel in 1868, and became Law Adviser to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland that same year. In 1870, he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Dublin University, and was Solicitor General for Ireland under Benjamin…
Sketch of Charles Robert Barry, Law Adviser 1865-1866