ASHBOURNE, EDWARD GIBSON, 1ST BARON 1913), Irish lawyer and politician, was born in Dublin Sept. 4 1837, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish bar in 186o, and in 1872 became a Q.C. In 1875 he was elected for Dublin University as a Conservative, and in 1877 became attorney-general for Ireland in Disraeli's Government. In 1885 he was made lord chancellor of Ireland with a seat in the Cabinet, and raised to the peerage, holding the same office in the Conservative Governments of 1886-92 and 1895-1905. Lord Ashbourne took a prominent part in the early negotiations for land purchase in Ireland. He died in London May 2 2 1913, and was succeeded as 2nd baron by his eldest son, William Gibson (b. 1868).