Rowland Gwynne, was to die in a debtors' prison. The elder Standish returned to Ireland about 1691 to serve for a second term as Baron of the Exchequer; young Standish and his family continued to live in Hereford for some time, but settled permanently in Ireland in the mid-1690s. His grandfather is thought to have died in August 1701. The will in which Standish's grandfather expressed his strong disapproval of his grandson's marriage to Anne Price left much of the property to Gwynne, the old man's teenage son by his third wife, Joanne Gwynne. He may reasonably have felt that young Standish was already well provided for since he had inherited substantial estates in Limerick and Cork from his parents. Standish, however, brought a lawsuit in 1702 against Gwynne and his two other uncles Standish and John, seeking to have the will set aside. As far as can be determined from the records, the action went in favour of young Gwynne, who died unmarried in his early twenties. The younger Standish's uncle, another Standish Hartstonge, also explicitly cut him out of his will when he died in 1704. Early career In 1701 Standish was made second justice, or Master of the Rolls, of the Palatine Court of Tipperary. This office was generally regarded as a sinecure: it is not clear if he had any formal legal training, nor whether he had been called to the Bar. His appointment indicates that he, like his uncle John, the future Bishop, was a client of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormond. The Palatine of Tipperary was Ormond's personal feudal court, and he had the right to appoint the judges and other officials. The Court was abolished in 1715 by the County Palatine of Tipperary Act 1715. Standish's career does not seem to have suffered as a result of Ormond's downfall, when he was exposed as a Jacobite and fled into exile later in 1715. Standish took down and rebuilt the memorial in St Peter's Church, Bruff, to his great-great-grandfather Sir Thomas Standish of Bruff and Surrey, which had originally been erected by the first Sir Standish in c.1676, and which contains some useful information about the family. Later career Although they had quarrelled over the Hartstonge inheritance, Standish was generally on good terms with the most influential of his relations, his uncle John Hartstonge, Bishop of Ossory, who had married one of the