George Vaughan Hart

George Vaughan Hart, KC (5 June 1841 – 13 December 1912) was an Anglo-Irish academic who served as Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law at Trinity College Dublin from 1890 to 1909.

Life

Hart was born on 5 June 1841 to Sir Andrew S. Hart, sometime vice-provost of Trinity College Dublin, and his wife, Frances MacDougall, the daughter of Henry MacDougall QC, of Dublin. He was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin. He was the brother of the explorer and botanist Henry Chichester Hart. He was also a great-nephew of William Allman, a professor of Botany at Trinity College Dublin and the first cousin once removed of George Johnston Allman through his maternal grandmother, Frances Allman.

George Vaughan Hart was a keen gardener, owner of the house and garden at Woodside, Howth, County Dublin.

Family

On 12 September 1873, he married Mary Elizabeth Hone, daughter of Addison Hone, a scion of the Hone family. They had seven children:

Ethel Vaughan Hart (1875–1964). She married Sir Anthony Babington on 5 September 1907. The couple had three children: Mary, Emerson and Ruth. George Vaughan Hart (31 August 1877 – 8 September 1928). He married Maud Cullen and the couple had six children: George, Frances, Andrew, John, Edward and Ann. George Vaughan Hart and two of his sons (Andrew and John) died in a bathing accident on the coast of County Donegal in 1928.

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