Eaton Stannard

He was a popular Recorder of Dublin, a very unpopular serjeant-at-law (Ireland), and an experienced parliamentarian who represented Midleton in the Irish House of Commons for many years.

On the other hand, he was a fine barrister, and gave a particularly effective performance in the celebrated Annesley peerage case of 1745, which inspired the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson.

[4] Stannard had been a popular Recorder of Dublin, but the decision to appoint him prime serjeant in 1754 in place of Anthony Malone proved highly unpopular.

[5] In any event the controversy was short-lived: Stannard, who was approaching seventy, fell ill in the spring of 1755 and died at his house at St Stephen's Green, Dublin.

[6] John had two daughters and co-heiresses: As a result of Cassandra's marriage the Stannard lands at Ballydoyle, County Cork, passed into the Eustace family.