Dominick McCausland LL.D.

Legum Doctor

Legum Doctor is a doctorate-level academic degree in law, or an honorary doctorate, depending on the jurisdiction. The double L in the abbreviation refers to the early practice in the University of Cambridge to teach both Canon Law and Civil Law, the double L indicating the plural, Doctor of both...

 QC

Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel , known as King's Counsel during the reign of a male sovereign, are lawyers appointed by letters patent to be one of Her [or His] Majesty's Counsel learned in the law...

 (1806–1873) was an Irish barrister

Barrister

A barrister is a member of one of the two classes of lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions with split legal professions. Barristers specialise in courtroom advocacy, drafting legal pleadings and giving expert legal opinions...

 and Christian author.

Career

By profession a barrister, McCausland obtained a B.A. in law at Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Dublin , formally known as the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, was founded in 1592 by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth I as the "mother of a university", Extracts from Letters Patent of Elizabeth I, 1592: "...we...found and...

 in 1835 further followed by a doctorate in 1859. He was later appointed as Crown Prosecutor

Crown Prosecutor

Crown Prosecutors are the public prosecutors in the legal system of Australia.Crown Prosecutors represent the Crown in right of the Commonwealth and in right of each State or Territory in criminal proceedings. Crown Prosecutors are appointed not elected and not public servants; they are private...

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Biblical ethnology

McCausland published two works on ethnology, Adam and the Adamite (1872) followed by The builders of Babel (1874). In these works McCausland attempted to harmonise scripture with ethnology and argued that the Book of Genesis refers almost exclusively to only one race, the "Adamic", or Caucasian

Caucasian race

The term Caucasian race has been used to denote the general physical type of some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia , Central Asia and South Asia...

 as opposed to multiple races.

These two books on ethnology were influential to the Christian Identity

Christian Identity

Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Many promote a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity.According to Chester L...

 movement and McCausland himself was an early proponent of Preadamism

Pre-Adamite

Pre-Adamite hypothesis or Preadamism is the religious belief that humans existed before Adam, the first human being named in the Bible. This belief has a long history, probably having its origins in early pagan responses to Abrahamic claims regarding the origins of the human race.Advocates of this...

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Works

The Latter Days of the Jewish Church and Nation (1842)

The times of the Gentiles as revealed in the Apocalypse (1852)

Sermons in stone: or scripture confirmed by geology (1857)

Shinar (1867)

Adam and the Adamite (1872)

The builders of Babel (1874)
Some works are still in print.