The new Solicitor-General for England has been thus silhouetted: "In appearance he is the embodiment of the popular idea of Sherlock Holmes. Tall and slim, with a thin hatchet face, deep-set cold eyes, a dark and sallow complexion, and an imperturbable calm, his is a striking personality both in Parliament and at the Bar. His manner is softened by a rich Dublin brogue, which is the only trace of his Irish origin. It is a somewhat curious thing that the two chief law officers of the Crown are now a Scotsman and an Irishman - still more curious that the Irishman should have only eight years' practice at the English Bar to his credit." The curious thing about the article is that it should attribute to Mr Carson a Dublin brogue; it is about the one thing Irish that he does not possess. He is certainly tall and comparatively slim, but he has not a thin hatchet face nor deep-set eyes; his complexion is by all means sallow, but he is by no means imperturbably calm, as Mr Justice Mathew could testify.
The Irish Times, May 11th, 1900.