Robert Torrens (judge)

He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1795, entered Middle Temple the following year and was called to the Bar in 1798.

He is said to have discharged his duties with great diligence, moderation and humanity, and to have earned the gratitude of the Crown as a result; this, as much as his brother Henry's friendship with the Duke of Wellington, explains his appointment to the Court of Common Pleas in 1823.

[8] In 1855-6 Torrens was one of several Irish judges who were threatened with removal from office by the House of Commons as being too old or infirm to fulfil their duties properly.

[9] The Irish Bar strongly opposed his removal from office, pleading that although he was eighty years of age, Torrens was an exceptionally conscientious and hard-working judge.

Torrens protested strongly at the suggestion that he was unfit for office, but in any event, he died suddenly at his country house, Derrynoid Lodge, just after the spring assizes in 1856.