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Robert Holmes Quotes

1765–1859 Ireland

Robert Holmes (1765 – October 7 1859) was an Irish lawyer and nationalist. He was the brother-in-law of both Thomas Addis Emmet and Robert Emmet, Irish revolutionaries.

Ireland
Lawyers

Also known as: Robert Holmes (Barrister)

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I can understand deposing the Queen from the throne perfectly well. I can understand an attempt made on the life of the Queen perfectly well, or expelling her from her dominions but I do not, for the life of me, know what it is to depose her ‘from the style, honour, or royal name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Holmes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.