Episode 193: The Rise of Charles Shinner, Irish Chief Justice of South Carolina

from Charleston Time Machine · host Nic Butler, Ph.D.

Charles Shinner was an obscure Irish lawyer whose wealthy English client nominated him to be Chief Justice of South Carolina. He and his young wife arrived in Charleston in 1762 and settled into a prosperous life. In the face of growing political opposition in the mid-1760s, the defects of Shinner’s education soon undermined his career and endangered his family.

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