Anthony Malone (5 December 1700 – 8 May 1776) was an Irish lawyer and politician. Anthony Malone JR Smith

Life

The eldest son of Richard Malone of Baronston (or Baronstown) House, Ballynacarrigy,

County Westmeath "Noble above nobility" , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Westmeath.svg , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Ireland , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = , subdivis ...

, who was a barrister like his three eldest sons, and Marcella, daughter of Redmond Molady of

Robertstown, County Kildare Robertstown () is a village situated on the banks of the Grand Canal in County Kildare, Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe. It is separated from Great ...

and his wife Mary, a Malone cousin, he was born on 5 December 1700; the noted Shakespearean scholar

Edmond Malone Edmond Malone (4 October 174125 May 1812) was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare. Assured of an income after the death of his father in 1774, Malone was able to give up his law practice for at first p ...

was his nephew, son of Edmond Malone senior, and a younger brother, Richard Malone (1706–1759) was M.P. for Fore from 1741 to his death. All three brothers held the office of Serjeant-at-law, but only Edmond was appointed a High Court judge, sitting in the

Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) The Court of Common Pleas was one of the principal courts of common law in Ireland. It was a mirror image of the equivalent court in England. Common Pleas was one of the four courts of justice which gave the Four Courts in Dublin, which is sti ...

. Anthony was educated at Mr. Young's school in

Abbey Street Abbey Street () is located on Dublin's Northside, running from the Customs House and Store Street in the east to Capel Street in the west. The street is served by two Luas light rail stops, one at the Jervis shopping centre and the other near ...

, Dublin, and on 6 April 1720 was admitted a gentleman-commoner of

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniq ...

. After two years at university, he entered the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's I ...

, and was called to the Irish Bar in May 1726. In 1737 he was created LL.D. of

Trinity College Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

. Malone made a successful career as a lawyer (his father had been considered the finest barrister of his time). From 1727 to 1760, and again from 1769 to 1776, he represented the county of Westmeath, and from 1761 to 1768 the borough of Castlemartyr, in the Irish parliament. In 1740 he was appointed

Serjeant-at-law A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are wri ...

, but was dismissed from office in 1754 for opposing the claim of the crown to dispose of unappropriated revenue. The decision aroused much public indignation, as he was extremely popular, and there were public demonstrations in his favour. In 1757 he was made

chancellor of the exchequer The chancellor of the Exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and head of HM Treasury, His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the Ch ...

, but his attitude in council in regard to the Money Bill of 1761 led to him again being removed from office. His treatment was regarded as too severe by William Pitt; and Malone, who drew a distinction between advice offered in council and his conduct in parliament, introduced the measure as chairman of the committee of supply. He was shortly afterwards granted a

patent of precedence A patent of precedence is a grant to an individual by letters patent of a higher social or professional position than the precedence to which his ordinary rank entitles him. Historical use in the English legal profession The principal instance in r ...

at the bar, but was charged with having sold his political principles for money. In the 1750s he was a partner in a short-lived banking firm, which collapsed during the financial crisis towards the end of the decade, leaving him for a time in some financial difficulty. Malone supported

John Monck Mason John Monck Mason (1726–1809) was an Irish politician and literary scholar. Life Born in Dublin, he was eldest son of Robert Mason of Mason-Brook, County Galway, by Sarah, eldest daughter of George Monck of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. On 12 ...

's bill for enabling

Roman Catholics The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

to invest money in mortgages on land. His tolerance in religious matters sometimes led to accusations that he was a Catholic himself; a suspicion strengthened by the fact that his mother had been raised in that faith, and that earlier generations of Malones had also been Catholics. In 1762 he was appointed, with Sir Richard Aston, to try the

Whiteboys The Whiteboys ( ga, na Buachaillí Bána) were a secret Irish agrarian organisation in 18th-century Ireland which defended tenant-farmer land-rights for subsistence farming. Their name derives from the white smocks that members wore in the ...

Munster Munster ( gle, an Mhumhain or ) is one of the provinces of Ireland, in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a "king of over-kings" ( ga, rí ruirech). Following t ...

; they agreed in ascribing the rural violence to local and individual grievances. Anthony Malone Spooner

Malone died on 8 May 1776. A marble bust of him used to adorn Baronston House.

Family

Malone married in 1733 Rose, daughter of

Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Baronet (c. 1675 – 23 February 1733) was a Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He is now chiefly remembered for building Belle Isle Castle. The Gore Baronetcy, of Magherabegg in the County of Donegal, was created in the ...

, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and his first wife Elizabeth Colville, daughter of Sir Robert Colville; they had no children. By his

will Will may refer to: Common meanings * Will and testament, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death * Will (philosophy), or willpower * Will (sociology) * Will, volition (psychology) * Will, a modal verb - see Shall and wi ...

, made in July 1774, he left all his estates in the counties of Westmeath, Roscommon, Longford, Cavan, and Dublin to his nephew,

Richard Malone, 1st Baron Sunderlin Richard Malone, 1st Baron Sunderlin (c.1738 – 14 April 1816) was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.John Lodge and Mervyn Archdall, ''The Peerage of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom'', Volume 7 (J. Moo ...

as he became, eldest son of his brother Edmund. On his death without issue in 1816, and his brother Edmund junior also having died without heirs, the right of

succession Succession is the act or process of following in order or sequence. Governance and politics *Order of succession, in politics, the ascension to power by one ruler, official, or monarch after the death, resignation, or removal from office of ...

to the family estates was disputed, due it was said to Anthony's will being so badly drafted.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Malone, Anthony 1700 births 1776 deaths Irish barristers Irish MPs 1727–1760 Irish MPs 1761–1768 Irish MPs 1769–1776 Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Members of the Middle Temple Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Cork constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wicklow constituencies Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Serjeants-at-law (Ireland)