John Philpot Curran
Irish politician
Died when: 67 years 82 days (806 months)Star Sign: Leo
John Philpot Curran (24 July 1750 – 14 October 1817) was an Irish orator, politician, wit, lawyer and judge, who held the office of Master of the Rolls in Ireland.
He was renowned for his representation in 1780 of Father Neale, a Catholic priest horsewhipped by the Anglo-Irish Lord, Viscount Doneraile, and in the 1790s for his defence of United Irishmen facing capital charges of sedition and treason.
His courtroom speeches were widely admired.Lord Byron was to say of Curran, "I have heard that man speak more poetry than I have seen written".
Karl Marx described him as the greatest "people's advocate" of the eighteenth century.
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