Background
Emmet, eldest son of Robert Emmet, Doctor of Medicine, and elder brother of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet, was born at Cork in 1761.
Emmet, eldest son of Robert Emmet, Doctor of Medicine, and elder brother of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet, was born at Cork in 1761.
He entered the University of Dublin in 1775, and obtained a scholarship there in 1778. Under the chancellorship of Lord Lifford, Emmet was advanced to the rank of King"s Counsel in 1787. His death occurred in February 1788, while he was on circuit in the south of Ireland, and his widow died in the following November.