Hewitt Poole Jellett (5 January 1825- 19 March 1911) was an Irish barrister and judge. He is notable for holding the office of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland) for more than twenty years until his death at the age of eighty-six.[1]
In 1888 he was appointed Third Serjeant, and he became Second Serjeant in 1892.[4] Unusually, he remained Second Serjeant until his death at the age of eighty-six, although he seems to have ceased practising law about 1899. Hart suggests that in his later years he was regarded simply as an "honorary" serjeant: when the office of First Serjeant fell vacant in 1907 there was no question of promoting Jellett, who was then eighty-two.[1]
He died of pneumonia in March 1911 at his home in Upper Pembroke Street, Dublin. Although he had long since retired from active practice at the Bar, the newspapers wrote that his death was a severe loss to the legal profession
He married Josephine Barrington, daughter of Sir Matthew Barrington, 2nd Baronet, who is best remembered for the foundation of Barrington's Hospital, Limerick, and his wife Charlotte Hartigan, daughter of the eminent surgeonWilliam Hartigan. They had two sons.[2]
Dr William Hartigan, grandfather of Jellett's wife, Josephine Barrington
Sources
Burke, Sir Bernard "Landed Gentry of Ireland" London Harrisons 1899
Haydn, John and Ockerby, Horace The Book of Dignities 3rd Edition London 1894
Hart, A. R. History of the King's Serjeant at law in Ireland Dublin Four Courts Press 2000
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