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[[File:Charles_Hemphill.jpg|thumb|right|Charles Hemphill]]
[[Image:Charles Hare Hemphill.jpg|thumb|{{center|"The Irish Serjeant"<br />Caricature of Charles Hare Hemphill by "Spy" ([[Leslie Ward]]) in [[Vanity Fair (British magazine 1868-1914)|Vanity Fair]], August 1904}}]]

'''Charles Hare Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill''', [[Privy Council of Ireland|PC]] [[Queen's Counsel|QC]] (August 1822 – 4 March 1908), was an [[Irish people|Irish]] politician and [[barrister]].

==Career==
Hemphill was born in [[County Tyrone]], [[Ireland]]. He was the son of John and the novelist [[Barbara Hemphill]].<ref>Brigitte Anton, 'Hemphill, Barbara (d. 1858)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12896, accessed 7 Jan 2015]</ref> He was made a [[Queen's Counsel]] (QC) shortly before being appointed [[Solicitor-General for Ireland]] in 1892, a post he held until 1895. He then sat as [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[North Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency)|North Tyrone]] from 1895 to 1906, after which he was elevated to the peerage as '''Baron Hemphill''', of Rathkenny and of Cashel in the County of [[County Tipperary|Tipperary]]. While most Irish Law Officers could confidently look forward to promotion to the Bench, Hemphill's age apparently ruled him out of serious consideration.

As Solicitor-General, he is remembered mainly for the somewhat malicious "compliments" paid to him by the [[Lord Chief Justice of Ireland]], [[Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien|Sir Peter O'Brien]], in the celebrated 1894 case of ''R. (Bridgeman) v. Drury''. Hemphill, who appeared for [[Dublin Corporation]], had argued, apparently with a good deal of hyperbole, that the members of the corporation were entitled to charge the [[ratepayers]] of [[Dublin]] for an especially lavish [[picnic]]. The Lord Chief Justice paid ironic tribute to Hemphill's eloquence and persuasiveness, but added drily that he had entirely failed to persuade the Court that the members of the corporation would "starve" if they were unable to make the ratepayers foot the bill for fine [[claret]], [[whiskey]] and [[cigars]], to say nothing of the broken wineglasses (although there were only four of them, which as the judge fairly noted, seemed quite moderate in the circumstances).

==Family==

Lord Hemphill married Augusta Mary, daughter of [[Major (rank)|Major]] the Hon. Sir Francis Charles Stanhope (son of the [[Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington|3rd Earl of Harrington]]), in 1849. They had three sons and one daughter. He died in March 1908 and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son [[Stanhope Charles John Hemphill, 2nd Baron Hemphill|Stanhope Charles John Hemphill]] (m. the Hon May Hamilton (1879-1970), daughter of James, 9th [[Lord Belhaven and Stenton]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Lady Hemphill, née Hon May (Clarke Mary Nisbet) Hamilton (1879-1970).  |url=http://lafayette.org.uk/bel1647a.html|publisher=Lafayette Negative Archive}}</ref> He had no son and on his death, the title passed to his brother [[Fitzroy Hemphill, 3rd Baron Hemphill]].

His daughter, Mary Hannah Augusta Hemphill, was the mother of the decorated [[Royal Army Medical Corps|R.A.M.C.]] officer and surgeon, Lt. Col. [[Herbert St Maur Carter]], D.S.O., M.D.

Hemphill was a cousin of [[John Hemphill (politician)|John Hemphill]], a [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Texas]] [[Texas Supreme Court|Supreme Court]], and a United States Senator, whose father was the [[Rev. John Hemphill]] from [[County Tyrone]].

==Arms==
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|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:Hemphill Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Or on a fess Gules between two chevronels and three stars Azure as many trefoils slipped of the field.
|crest = A boar passant Gules charged with a chevron and a portcullis Or.
|supporters = On either side an Irish wolfhound gorged with a plain collar Or.
|motto = Constanter Ac Non Timide (Steadily and Fearlessly)<ref>{{cite book|title=Debrett's Peerage |date=2019 |page=2985}}</ref>}}

==Notes==
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==References==
*''New Dictionary of National Biography''
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}-
*{{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
*{{Rayment-hc|date=March 2012}}

== External links ==
*{{Hansard-contribs | mr-charles-hemphill | Charles Hemphill }}

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