User:Alekksandr/Irish High Court Judges

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The following judges held the title of Judge of the High Court in Ireland from the Court's creation in 1878 to the abolition of the pre-Independence Courts in 1924.[1]

Year appointed Name Division Year left office Reason for leaving office
1878[a] William Keogh[2] Common Pleas Division 1878 Death
1878[b] James O'Brien Queen's Bench Division 1882 Death
1878[c] Francis Alexander FitzGerald Exchequer Division 1882 Resigned
1878[d] John FitzGerald Queen's Bench Division 1882 Appointed as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
1878[e] Robert Warren Probate and Matrimonial Division 1897 Death
1878[f] James Anthony Lawson Common Pleas Division 1882 Transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
1878[g] Stephen Woulfe Flanagan Chancery Division 1885 Retired
1878[h] Charles Robert Barry Queen's Bench Division 1897 Death
1878[i] Richard Dowse Exchequer Division 1890 Death
1878[j] Henry Ormsby Chancery Division 1885 Retired
1878 Michael Harrison Common Pleas Division 1888 Transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
1881 John O'Hagan Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission Died 1890
1881 Edward Falconer Litton Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission Died 1890
1882 James Anthony Lawson Queen's Bench Division 1887 Death
1882 William O'Brien Common Pleas Division 1883 Transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
1882 William Drennan Andrews Exchequer Division 1897 Transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
1883 William Moore Johnson Queen's Bench Division 1909 Retired
1883 William O'Brien Queen's Bench Division 1899 Death
1883 James Murphy Common Pleas Division 1888 Transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
1885 John Monroe Chancery Division 1896 Resignation
1887 Hugh Holmes Common Pleas Division 1888 Transferred to the Queen's Bench Division
1888 James Murphy Queen's Bench Division 1892 Transferred to the Exchequer Division
1888 Hugh Holmes Queen's Bench Division 1897 promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal
1888 John George Gibson Queen's Bench Division 1921 Retired
1890 Edmund Thomas Bewley[3] Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission 1898 Retired
1892 Dodgson Hamilton Madden Queen's Bench Division 1919 Retired
1896 John Ross Chancery Division 1921 Appointed as Lord Chancellor for Ireland
1897 Walter Boyd Queen's Bench Division 1921 Died
1897 William Kenny Queen's Bench Division 1921 Died
1898 Richard Edmund Meredith Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission 1906 Appointed as Master of the Rolls
1900 Dunbar Plunket Barton Queen's Bench Division 1904 Transferred to the Chancery Division
1901 George Wright King's Bench Division 1913 Died
1904 Dunbar Plunket Barton Chancery Division 1918 Retired
1906 James Owens Wylie[4] Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission 1920[5] Retired
1907 William Huston Dodd King's Bench Division 1924 Court abolished
1913 Thomas Molony King's Bench Division 1915 promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal
1913 Jonathan Pim King's Bench Division 1924 Court abolished
1916 John Gordon King's Bench Division 1922 Death
1917 William Moore King's Bench Division 1921 promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland
1918 James O'Connor Chancery Division 1918 promoted to be a Lord Justice of Appeal
1918 John Blake Powell Chancery Division 1923 Death
1919 Arthur Samuels King's Bench Division 1924 Court abolished
1920 William Evelyn Wylie[5] Judicial Commissioner of the Irish Land Commission 1924 Court abolished - re-appointed as judicial commissioner 1924 and retired in 1936

Notes

  1. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, since 1856
  2. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, since 1858
  3. ^ Previously served as Baron of the Court of Exchequer, since 1859
  4. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, since 1861
  5. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Probate, since 1868
  6. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, since 1868
  7. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Landed Estates Court, since 1869
  8. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, since 1872
  9. ^ Previously served as Baron of the Court of Exchequer, since 1872
  10. ^ Previously served as Judge of the Landed Estates Court, since 1875

References

  1. ^ Delaney, V. T. H. "Christopher Palles" Dublin, Allen Figgis and Co. (1960) Appendix 1
  2. ^ The Law Reports (Ireland), Volume 2, 1877-78 Page vii
  3. ^ O'Donoghue, David James (1912). "Bewley, Edmund Thomas" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 157–158.
  4. ^ Thom's Irish Who's Who/Wylie, The Right Hon. James Owens
  5. ^ a b Dictionary of Irish Biography - Wylie, William Evelyn