George Vaughan Hart (academic)


George Vaughan Hart, KC 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 the 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.
He was called to the Irish Bar in 1865. He was King's Inns Professor of Law of Personal Property from 1880-1886. He was appointed Chief Examiner of Titles, Land Judges, Dublin in 1890. His career culminated in his post as Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law at TCD from 1890-1909.
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: