Early Life
Thomas Lefroy had an outstanding academic record at Trinity College, Dublin, from 1790 to 1793. His great-uncle Benjamin Langlois sponsored Tom's legal studies at Lincoln's Inn, London. One year later, Lefroy served as Auditor of Trinity's College Historical Society, the still-active debating society of the college. Later still, he became a prominent member of the Irish bar (having been called to it in 1797) and published a series of Law Reports on the cases of the Irish Court of Chancery.
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