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Godfrey Boate (1673-1722) was an Irish judge: he is mainly remembered now for incurring the enmity of Jonathan Swift, who wrote the mocking ''Quibbling Elegy on Judge Boat''.〔Sir Walter Scott ''Life of Jonathan Swift'' Vol. 1 Edinburgh 1814 pp.281-2〕 ==Biography== He was born in County Tipperary, the eldest son of Godfrey Boate senior. His father was a clerk in the Court of Chancery (Ireland), but this position may have been a sinecure since the Boate family were substantial landowners in Tipperary. These lands had been granted to Katherine, widow of Gerard Boate (1604-1650), author of ''The Natural History of Ireland''; Gerard and Katherine were probably Godfrey's grandparents. The Boate family, originally called de Boot, came to Ireland from the Netherlands in the 1640s.〔Gilbert, John Thomas "Gerard Boate" ''Dictionary of National Biography 1885-1900'' Vol.5 p.284〕 Godfrey went to school in Dublin and attended the University of Dublin where he matriculated in 1692.〔Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.194〕 He entered Gray's Inn the same year and was called to the Irish Bar. After a brief period as Master in Chancery he became Prime Serjeant in 1716. The following year he became third justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland);〔Ball p.194〕 Francis Elrington Ball, in his definitive study of the Irish judiciary before 1921, thought that Boate was unqualified to be a judge, an opinion with which Jonathan Swift, who knew and loathed Boate, would most certainly have agreed. Boate died of dropsy in the summer of 1722, apparently while visiting his wife's relatives in England.〔Ball p.194〕 He was buried ih All Saints' Church, Hillesden, Buckinghamshire,〔Foster, Rev. A. J. ''Wanderings in Buckinghamshire'' p.23〕 where his memorial still exists.〔Hillesden manor belonged to his wife's family, the Dentons.〕 By his wife, Cary Denton of London and Hillesden, Buckinghamshire, he had at least two daughters: *Lucy, who married the Rev. William Hemsworth, vicar of Birr- their descendants inherited the Boate estates in Tipperary; *Mary, who married Godfrey Clayton (who died in 1745); she died in 1772 and is buried beside her father in All Saints' Church, Hillesden.〔Foster p.23〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Godfrey Boate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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