Appeals to the Privy Council from the
Caribbean and Canadian Colonies
Report No. ANT_1752_03

Kirwan v Alexander

Antigua 

 

Case Name Long

Richard Kirwan v Charles and Bisse Alexander, Samuel and Jane Lyons, Rowland Hamilton, John Gunthorpe, Ashton Warner, William Byam, William Yeamans, Rowland and Sarah Oliver, William Denbow, and Byam Denbow, by William Denbow

 
 

Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series

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APC Citation  

v.4 [174] p.162–163 (14 April 1752 – 9 Jan. 1755)

 
  PC Register Citation

George II v.14 (1 April 1752 – 31 Dec. 1753) p.36–37, 545: PC 2/103/36–37, 545

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  PC Register Citation

George II v.15 (1 Jan. 1754 – 31 Dec. 1755) p.260–264, 282: PC 2/104/260–264, 282

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Colonial Courts

 
 

Chancery – 26 March and 6 and 18 April 1751 (year inferred from the date of the report)

 

Participants

Alexander, Bisse, respondent (wife of Charles)

 

Alexander, Charles, respondent (husband of Bisse)

 

Bisse, Mary – see Kirwan, Mary

 

Byam, William, respondent

 

Denbow, Byam, infant, respondent (son of William)

 

Denbow, William, respondent (father and guardian of Byam)

 

Gunthorpe, John, respondent

 

Hamilton, Archibald, deceased

 

Hamilton, Col. John (father of Archibald)

 

Hamilton, Mary – see Kirwan, Mary

 

Hamilton, Rowland, respondent (son of John)

 

Kirwan (née Bisse, formerly Hamilton), Mary, deceased (wife of Richard, former wife of Archibald Hamilton)

 

Kirwan, Richard, esquire, appellant (husband and administrator of Mary, administrator de bonis non of William Ling)

 

Ling, William, esquire, deceased (trustee for Mary Bisse [now Mary Kirwan])

 

Lyons, Jane, respondent (wife of Samuel)

 

Lyons, Samuel, respondent (husband of Jane)

 

Oliver, Rowland, respondent (husband of Sarah)

 

Oliver, Sarah, respondent (wife of Rowland)

 

Warner, Ashton, respondent

 

Yeamans, William, respondent

 

Description

In relation to payment of the arrears of a jointure annuity.

Disposition

Decrees reversed, bill dismissed in part with directions for taking accounts and for payments to be made.

Notes

Related to another Privy Council appeal:

Kirwan v Lyons, Hamilton v Lyons – Report No. ANT_1738_03 (APC, v.3 [457] p.620–621).


DOCUMENTATION

Printed Cases

Appellant’s case

Case of the appellant (Richard Kirwan v Samuel and Jane Lyons, Charles and Bisse Alexander, Rowland Hamilton, William Byam, John Gunthorpe, Rowland and Sarah Oliver, William Denbow, Byam Denbow, and William Yeomans)

Counsel

Robert Henley; Samuel Martin

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Manuscript date on dorse 21 Nov. 1754. Library markings on page 2; considerable underlining.)

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Respondent’s case

Case of the respondent (Samuel and Jane Lyons, Charles and Bisse Alexander, Rowland Hamilton, William Byam, John Gunthorpe, Rowland and Sarah Oliver, William Denbow, Byam Denbow, and William Yeomans v Richard Kirwan)

Counsel

Robert Henley; Samuel Martin

 
Library

Law Library of Congress: (Sir George Lee Collection) (Includes underlining.)

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

 

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