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Major Sir Lancelot Ernest Curran (8 March 1899 – 20 October 1984〔(Privy Counsellors of Ireland )〕) was a Northern Ireland High Court judge and parliamentarian. He was elected as Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Carrick in the Stormont Parliament serving from 1945 till 1949,〔(The Belfast Telegraph )〕 and was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance (Chief Whip) (17 July 1945 - 12 June 1947).〔〔(The Government of Northern Ireland )〕 Curran was Attorney General for Northern Ireland (6 June 1947 – 4 November 1949), the youngest in the history of that parliament.〔〔(The Stormont Papers )〕 He was a member of the Orange Order and became a member of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland.〔〔(Denied justice by a form of words )〕 Curran had three children, Michael, Patricia and Desmond, a barrister and latterly a Roman Catholic convert and missionary.〔〔 On 12 November 1952, Patricia was murdered; her body was found in the driveway of the Curran home, Glen House, Whiteabbey, County Antrim. She had been stabbed thirty-seven times. She was nineteen and a student at the Queen's University, Belfast.〔(BBC News )〕 In 2000, Iain Hay Gordon, the man convicted of her murder, had his sentence overturned after the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal found it to be unsafe.〔(Scotsman who became 'non-person' is cleared of killing after 47 years )〕 ''Scapegoat'', a BBC Northern Ireland drama about the conviction of Iain Hay Gordon, was broadcast in 2009.〔(Scapegoat found for high society murder )〕 Curran presided over the trial of Robert McGladdery for the murder of 19-year-old Pearl Gamble, near Newry, in 1961. McGladdery protested his innocence but was found guilty and hanged at Crumlin Road jail in Belfast on 20 December 1961; it was the last hanging in Ireland. A fictionalized account of the trial and execution of McGladdery - ''Orchid Blue'' - was written by Eoin McNamee and published in 2010 (McNamee had previously written a Booker Prize-nominated novel, ''Blue Tango'', about the murder of Patricia Curran). Another McNamee novel, ''Blue Is The Night'' (published in 2014), deals with Curran's involvement in a murder trial in the Northern Ireland of the late 1940s. Curran's first wife, Doris, died on 29 May 1975. He married Margaret Pearce a year later. He died in Sussex in 1984. ==References== 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「Lancelot Curran」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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