Hugh Law, PC (Ire), QC (19 June 1818 – 10 September 1883) was an Irish lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
[1]His promotion was regarded as a proper reward for his services to the Liberals, despite the practical problem that until 1874 he did not have a seat in Parliament and therefore could not speak for the Government in the Commons.
[1]As Attorney General he prosecuted Charles Stewart Parnell and other leading members of the Irish National Land League for conspiracy.
His eldest son later bought the historic Ardbraccan House, the former palace of the Lord Bishop of Meath, from the Church of Ireland.
[1] His second son, also called Hugh Law, sat initially as a Nationalist MP in the House of Commons and later served in Dáil Éireann as a Cumann na nGaedheal TD from June 1927 until 1932.