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H. S. Priest, chief counsel for the Waters-Pierce Oil Company query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F0CE1D81231E233A...

Henry S. Priest, a former Federal Judge, was candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States senator of Missouri in 1920. Evening star. [volume], June 06, 1920, Page 22, col. 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1920-06-06/ed-... One of his opponents was Breckinridge Long, who was nominated. But Selden P. Spencer won reelection. This man and the chief counsel for the Waters-Pierce Oil Company are probably the same.

From the Federal Judicial Center: "Priest, Henry Samuel Born February 7, 1853, in Ralls County, MO Died July 9, 1930, in St. Louis, MO Federal Judicial Service: Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri Nominated by Grover Cleveland on August 6, 1894, to a seat vacated by Amos M. Thayer. Confirmed by the Senate on August 9, 1894, and received commission on August 9, 1894. Service terminated on May 23, 1895, due to resignation. Education: Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, A.B., 1872 Read law, 1873 Professional Career: Private practice, Moberly, Missouri, 1873-1880 City attorney, Moberly, Missouri Attorney, Missouri Pacific and Wabash Railroads, St. Louis Missouri, 1881-1894 Private practice, St. Louis, Missouri, 1895- Candidate for U.S. Senate from Missouri, 1920 Candidate for governor, Missouri, 1924" www.fjc.gov/node/1386601 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Samuel_Priest

Thank you all for the information on Priest.

More about him in - Centennial history of Missouri (the center state) one hundred years in the Union, 1820-1921, p. 110 ff. archive.org/stream/centennialhistor03stev#page/110/mode/2up/ and - The Priest family : a collection of data, original, contributed and selected, concerning various branches of the Priest family, p. 477 ff. archive.org/stream/priestfamilycoll00fost#page/n475/mode/... An article in the Gasconade County Republican from Owensville, Missouri · Page 4, February 15, 1940 confirms that he acted as counsel for the Waters-Pierce Oil Company as well. www.newspapers.com/newspage/82970609/

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/51979177@N02] That has to be him! The likeness is so close. The only problem is that this image is attributed to Hall Photographic co, and Hall senior did not arrive in Australia until around 1874, several years after Plunkett's death. We may have to review the provenance of this one, it looks as though it is a photo of a photo. Thanks Quasymody, great find!

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The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway.

Robert French would have taken the photograph from the two story house on the right. The window frame on the Lynch building can be seen in bottom right www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/22844068380/in/photolist-...

This is one of Galway’s great stories. It is said that in 1493, the mayor and magistrate of Galway James Lynch FitzStephen, hanged his own son from the window of his home. Lynch's son confessed to have murdered a man, a Spanish merchant sailor in the care of the family who had romanced his girlfriend. When no one could be found to carry out the execution, Judge Lynch hanged (or lynched as the practice became known around the world after this event) his son himself, ensuring that justice prevailed, before retiring into seclusion. The memorial is now embedded in stone above a Gothic doorway on Market Street near the graveyard at St. Nicholas’s Church. www.activeme.ie/guides/attractions-2/lynchs-memorial-wind...

Via Chetham's Library with interesting comments and legible inscriptions at large size -