Edward Carson case was regarded at the time as an important political case as Carson and the Unionists maintained that it showed the fundamental immorality of free trade. George Cadbury recovered the derisory sum of one farthing in damages in a case described as one of Carson's triumphs. Carson was also the victorious counsel in the 1910 Archer-Shee Case, exonerating a Royal Naval College, Osborne cadet of the charge of theft. The cadet was from a quite prominent Roman Catholic banking family, and educated at Stonyhurst. On this case, Terence Rattigan based his play "The Winslow Boy". The fictional barrister, Morton, is
Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronet (14 June 1785, Calcutta – 25 January 1870, London) was an Irish diplomat. George Shee was the eldest son of Sir George Shee, 1st Baronet and Elizabeth Maria Crisp. He was educated at Sandy Mount, near Dublin, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1806 and M.A. in 1811. He was admitted to Gray's Inn in 1802. On 4 January 1808 he married his first wife, Jane, the eldest daughter of William Young of Harley Street and Hexton Place, Hertfordshire. On 3 February 1825 he succeeded his