sentences:  He built up an extensive legal practice and became a member of the Council, and later President, of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.He was also a director of the Hibernian Bank and of the Irish Great Southern Railways, and an active social welfare worker and member of the Catholic St Vincent de Paul Society.In 1900 he married Evelyn Parminter, youngest daughter of John Douglas Parminter, a Paymaster in the Royal Navy.