Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne (1837–1913)

Lawyer and politician. BA, Trinity College, Dublin, 1858; called to the Irish bar, 1860. MP, Trinity College, 1875; attorney-general for Ireland, 1877. Took a peerage in 1885, and as Baron Ashbourne, was lord chancellor of Ireland in every Conservative government from 1885 until 1905.