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William Domville
b.1609
d.1689
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  1. William Domville1609 - 1689
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Name William Domville
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1609
Marriage to Bridget Lake
Death[1] 1689
Reference Number? Q8007883?


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William Domville (1609–1689) was a leading Irish politician, barrister and Constitutional writer of the Restoration era. Due to the great trust which the English Crown had in him, he served as Attorney General for Ireland throughout the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) and also served briefly in the following reign. It was during his term of office that the Attorney General emerged as pre-eminent legal adviser to the Crown in Ireland.

While Domville was undoubtedly a loyal subject of the English Crown, in his unpublished treatise, "A Disquisition Touching that Great Question Whether an Act of Parliament made in England shall bind the People and Kingdom of Ireland" (1660), he argued for the right of the Irish Parliament to act independently and free from interference by the English Parliament. Although the work was not published in his lifetime, his son-in-law William Molyneux drew on it for his own highly controversial treatise "The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England, Stated", and it is thought to have had considerable influence on later writers including Jonathan Swift.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 William Domville, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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