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Ridgeway graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, as Bachelor of Arts in 1787, Bachelor of Laws in 1790, and Doctor of Laws in 1795.
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William Ridgeway
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He was called to the bar, and acted as one of the crown counsel in state trials, notably in that of Robert Emmet in 1803, of Edward Sheridan and Thomas Kirwan in 1811-1812, and of Roger O"Connor and Martin McKeon in 1817. Ridgeway died at Dublin of typhus fever, caught while on circuit at Trim, County Meath, on 1 December 1817. Ridgeway married a daughter of Edward Ledwich, and left seven children.
