 Complete the following phrase:  He was appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas Ireland in 1794, having been originally intended for the Court of Exchequer Ireland. Though he is said to have owed his appointment to his friendship with John Fitzgibbon, 1st Earl of Clare, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, he was highly regarded as a judge. William Norcott, the barrister and poet, in his 1805 poem The Metropolis, praised him for his honesty and commonsense. He presided at a number of the trials resulting from the Irish Rebellion of 1798. After the failure of the 