Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, PC (Ire) KC (28 May 1736 – 19 August 1805) was an Irish judge and politician, who gave his name to Yelverton's Act 1782, which effectively repealed Poyning's Law. This achievement was destroyed by the Act of Union 1800, which Yelverton supported, and by so doing gravely damaged his own reputation for integrity, which had already been damaged by the execution of William Orr, widely seen as a miscarriage of justice.. }
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- Barry_Yelverton,_1st_Viscount_Avonmore abstract "Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, PC (Ire) KC (28 May 1736 – 19 August 1805) was an Irish judge and politician, who gave his name to Yelverton's Act 1782, which effectively repealed Poyning's Law. This achievement was destroyed by the Act of Union 1800, which Yelverton supported, and by so doing gravely damaged his own reputation for integrity, which had already been damaged by the execution of William Orr, widely seen as a miscarriage of justice.".
- Barry_Yelverton,_1st_Viscount_Avonmore comment "Barry Yelverton, 1st Viscount Avonmore, PC (Ire) KC (28 May 1736 – 19 August 1805) was an Irish judge and politician, who gave his name to Yelverton's Act 1782, which effectively repealed Poyning's Law. This achievement was destroyed by the Act of Union 1800, which Yelverton supported, and by so doing gravely damaged his own reputation for integrity, which had already been damaged by the execution of William Orr, widely seen as a miscarriage of justice.".