The Master of the Rolls in Ireland was a senior judicial office in the Irish Chancery under English and British rule, and was equivalent to the Master of the Rolls in the English Chancery. Originally
Francis Blackburne, Master of the Rolls 1842-6
2nd Duke of Leinster, Master of the Rolls 1788-9, which was a sinecure position, as he lacked legal qualifications
Thomas de Thelwall
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Thomas de Thelwall was an English judge and Crown official who spent part of his career in Ireland, where he held office as Master of the Rolls in Ireland and Clerk to the Privy Council of Ireland. He
Master of the Rolls (Ireland)
…c.1370 Thomas de Cottingham 1372 Thomas de Thelwall, later Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (England) 1377 Robert Sutton, later Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, first term…
Polebrook, Northamptonshire: Thomas was parish priest here
Egremont, Cumbria: Thomas and others acquired the castle in 1375 as security for a loan to the owner Lord Fitzwalter