Anthony Hart was born into a slave-owning family about 1754 in the island of Saint Kitts, West Indies, fourth son of William Hart and Sarah Johnson.
10 Facts About Anthony Hart
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Anthony Hart said to have been educated at Tonbridge School and to have been a unitarian preacher at Norwich for a short time.
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Anthony Hart was admitted as a student of the Middle Temple in 1776 and was called to the bar in 1781.
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Anthony Hart confined himself exclusively to equity work, and after practising twenty-six years at the outer bar was in 1807 appointed a king's counsel, and in the same year was elected a Bencher of his Inn.
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Anthony Hart took his seat in the vice-chancellor's court in the following month.
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Anthony Hart was sworn in at Dublin on 5 November 1827, and took his seat in the Court of Chancery on the following day, when he immediately became involved in a serious misunderstanding with Sir William MacMahon, the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, in reference to the right of the latter to appoint a secretary.
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Anthony Hart did his best to shorten equity pleadings, which he considered were 'too prolix in Ireland'.
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Anthony Hart sat as lord chancellor for the last time on 22 December 1830, and was addressed in a farewell speech by the veteran lawyer William Saurin, the former Attorney General for Ireland, on behalf of the Irish bar.
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Anthony Hart died in Cumberland Street, Portman Square, London, on 6 December 1831.
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An engraving taken from a portrait of Anthony Hart, sketched by Cahill, forms the frontispiece to the first volume of the 'Irish Law Recorder.