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Sir Robert Romney Kane, Bt (28 October 1842 – 26 March 1902) was an Irish
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and legal writer. He wrote also on Irish history.


Life

Born at Gracefield,
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, on 28 October 1842, he was eldest son of Sir Robert Kane; his mother,
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, daughter of Henry Baily of
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and niece of
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, wrote an ''Irish Flora''. After attending Dr. Quinn's private school in Harcourt Street, Kane passed to
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, where he graduated M.A. in 1862 (and later received in 1882 the honorary degree of LL.D.) Becoming a member of
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, Kane studied law in London in the chambers of an eminent conveyancing lawyer, W. H. G. Bagshawe, and in 1865 he graduated LL.B. with honours in
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. Called to the Irish bar the same year, he went the Munster circuit and built up a good practice. In 1873 he was appointed professor of equity, jurisprudence, and international law at the
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; and, acquiring the reputation of an authority on Irish land legislation, he was in 1881 appointed a legal assistant commissioner under the Land Law Act of that year. He retained that post till 1892, when he was made county court judge for the united counties of Kildare, Carlow, Wexford and Wicklow. After some years of poor health, Kane died at his residence, 4 Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin, on 26 March 1902. He was a member of the
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, a fellow of the
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, for many years one of the two honorary secretaries of the
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, and a trustee of the
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.


Works

Kane collaborated with Francis Nolan Q.C. in a treatise on the ''Statute Law of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland'' (1892). He edited ''Lectures on Irish History'', by his friend Alexander George Richey, published in 1887 as ''A Short History of the Irish People''.


Family

Kane married on 29 December 1875 Ellinor Louisa, second daughter of David Coffey, taxing master in chancery, by whom he had two sons and three daughters. The elder son, Harold, lieutenant in the 1st battalion of the
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, fell in the
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while fighting on the summit of Mount Itala on 26 September 1901. His second son was killed in action in the final weeks of the First World War commanding the 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers.


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* http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/285017/KANE,%20ROBERT%20ROMNEY%20GODRED {{DEFAULTSORT:Kane, Robert Romney 1842 births 1902 deaths Irish barristers Irish legal writers Members of the Royal Irish Academy 19th-century Irish historians Lawyers from Dublin (city)