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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 |
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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
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, since 1856
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, since 1858
- ^ Previously served as Baron of the Court of Exchequer, since 1859
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, since 1861
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Probate, since 1868
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, since 1868
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Landed Estates Court, since 1869
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, since 1872
- ^ Previously served as Baron of the Court of Exchequer, since 1872
- ^ Previously served as Judge of the Landed Estates Court, since 1875
References
- ^ Delaney, V. T. H. "Christopher Palles" Dublin, Allen Figgis and Co. (1960) Appendix 1
- ^ The Law Reports (Ireland), Volume 2, 1877-78 Page vii
- ^ O'Donoghue, David James (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 157–158.
- ^ Thom's Irish Who's Who/Wylie, The Right Hon. James Owens
- ^ a b Dictionary of Irish Biography - Wylie, William Evelyn