Sir John Ross, 1st Baronet
Sir John Ross, 1st Baronet, PC (I), KC (1853–1935) was an Irish politician and judge who was the last person to hold the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland.Maurice Healy noted that he was as scrupulous in avoiding any suggestion of religious bias as he was in not allowing his own political views to colour his judgement.They had one son, Major Sir Ronald Deane Ross MC MP, and two daughters, Irene and May, the younger of whom predeceased her father.Ross died, of bronchial pneumonia, at his home, Dunmoyle Lodge, Sixmilecross, County Tyrone, on 17 August 1935, and was succeeded as the second baronet by his son.Maurice Healy, who described most of the Irish judges of his time in his memoir The Old Munster Circuit,[1] praises Ross in the highest terms, recalling his "splendid presence", his beautiful command of the English language, and his unfailing kindness to young barristers.