supporting Catholic Emancipation, he prosecuted members of the Catholic Association for sedition, merely for advocating the same cause. In Dublin, he was a member of Daly's Club. Family Bushe in 1793 married Anne (Nancy) Crampton (died 1857), daughter of John Crampton of Dublin and Anne Verner, and sister of Sir Philip Crampton, 1st Baronet, President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. They had ten children including John, Charles, Arthur, Charlotte, Anna Maria, Katherine and Henrietta. His daughter Charlotte married John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket and was the mother of William Plunket, 4th Baron Plunket, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, and David Plunket, 1st Baron Rathmore. His son John Bushe married Louisa Hare, daughter of William Hare, 1st Earl of Listowel, and his first wife, Mary Wrixon, only daughter of Henry Wrixon. His son Charles, a Church of Ireland clergyman who became rector of Castlehaven, County Cork, was by his second wife Emmeline Coghill the father of another eminent barrister, Seymour Coghill Bushe. His daughter Anna Maria was the second wife of Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, 3rd Baronet: her stepdaughter Emmeline married Anna Maria's brother Charles as his second wife. His daughter Katherine married Michael Fox, son of his judicial colleague Luke Fox and Anne Annesley, a niece of Charles Loftus, 1st Marquess of Ely. Descendants Dunbar Plunket Barton, a leading Irish High Court judge of the early 1900s, was descended from Bushe. Seymour Coghill Bushe (1853-1922) was a leading barrister whose career in Ireland was largely destroyed by his role as co-respondent in a much publicised criminal conversation case, followed by divorce, Brooke v Brooke (1886), and thereafter largely confined his legal practice to England. He was the judge's grandson, his parents being the Reverend Charles Bushe and his second wife Emmeline Coghill, daughter of Sir Josiah Coghill Coghill, 3rd Baronet of the Coghill Baronets and his first wife Sophia Dodson. He married Lady Kathleen Maude, daughter of Cornwallis Maude, 1st Earl de Montalt and Clementina Fleeming, and the defendant in Brooke v. Brooke, after her divorce from her first husband, Gerald Brooke. She died in 1939. References 1767 births 1843 deaths Irish barristers Solicitors-General for Ireland Members of the Privy Council of Ireland Alumni of Trinity College Dublin People from Thomastown Irish MPs 1790–1797 Irish MPs 1798–1800 Lords chief justice of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Kilkenny constituencies Members of the