Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1738_03

Kirwan v Lyons

Hamilton v Lyons

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Richard and Mary Kirwan, and Archibald Hamilton v Samuel and Jane Lyons, and Charles and Biss Alexander

 
Case Name Long

Archibald Hamilton, Richard and Mary Kirwan, John Gunthorpe and Rowland Hamilton v Samuel and Jane Lyons, and Charles and Biss Alexander

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.3 [457] p.620–621 (30 Nov. 1738 – 21 Dec. 1738)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.6 (1 Oct. 1738 – 27 March 1740) p.47–48, 61, 63: PC 2/95/47–48, 61, 63

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Lieutenant Governor and Council as a Court of Chancery – 24 May 1735

 

Participants

Alexander, Biss, respondent (wife of Charles)

 

Alexander, Charles, respondent (husband of Biss)

 

Gunthorpe, John, appellant (executor and trustee of Col. John Hamilton)

 

Hamilton, Archibald, infant, appellant

 

Hamilton, Col. John, deceased

 

Hamilton, Rowland, appellant (executor and trustee of Col. John Hamilton)

 

Kirwan, Mary, appellant (wife of Richard)

 

Kirwan, Richard, appellant (husband of Mary)

 

Lyons, Jane, respondent (wife of Samuel)

 

Lyons, Samuel, respondent (husband of Jane)

 

Description

Not stated in the Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series.

Disposition

Appeals dismissed with costs for non-prosecution.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Kirwan v Alexander – Report No. ANT_1752_03 (APC, v.4 [174] p.162–163).

 

References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations

Table of Cases (Kirwan v Lyons)


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew

 

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