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Lot Essay
W. H. Dixon in Lady Morgan's memoirs: autobiography, diaries and correspondence, London, 1862, records Lady Morgan's impression of Pierce Mahony (1792-1853) and his profession.
'Apropos of 'fashionable attorneys', the late well-known Pierce Mahony, who came under this head to the very extent, and who was, besides, an excellent and worthy gentleman, when presented to Lord Wellesley, at the levee, his Excellency, with one of the banalités of royalty, said,
Of course, Mr. Mahony, you are of one of the liberal professions? At the bar, I suppose?
Well, almost, my Lord - that is, my estates are in Kerry; but I employ my leisure hours, when in town, with the profession of an attorney.'
Pierce Mahony was the Dublin solicitor for the Provincial Bank of Ireland, the prospectus of which was drawn up in 1824 with William Medley as one of the directors. The bank was to have a capital of £2 million and offices in all the large towns in Ireland more than 50 miles from Dublin. Supported by many Irish MPs and Irish aristocrats, it proved very successful with eminent board members such as the financier Sir Moses Montefiore.
For other boxes by this goldsmith, see lots 89 and 93.
'Apropos of 'fashionable attorneys', the late well-known Pierce Mahony, who came under this head to the very extent, and who was, besides, an excellent and worthy gentleman, when presented to Lord Wellesley, at the levee, his Excellency, with one of the banalités of royalty, said,
Of course, Mr. Mahony, you are of one of the liberal professions? At the bar, I suppose?
Well, almost, my Lord - that is, my estates are in Kerry; but I employ my leisure hours, when in town, with the profession of an attorney.'
Pierce Mahony was the Dublin solicitor for the Provincial Bank of Ireland, the prospectus of which was drawn up in 1824 with William Medley as one of the directors. The bank was to have a capital of £2 million and offices in all the large towns in Ireland more than 50 miles from Dublin. Supported by many Irish MPs and Irish aristocrats, it proved very successful with eminent board members such as the financier Sir Moses Montefiore.
For other boxes by this goldsmith, see lots 89 and 93.