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Attorney-General for Ireland

The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then (from the Act of Union 1800) United Kingdom government office. The holder was senior to the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and advised the Crown on Irish legal matters. With the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922, the duties of the Attorney General and Solicitor General for Ireland were taken over by the Attorney General of Ireland.

Attorneys-General for Ireland

partial list before 1830

William Basil circa 1649 - circa 1658
Sir John Temple 1691 - 1695
Alan Brodrick 1707 - December 1709
John Forster 1709 - 1711
Sir Richard Levigne, Bt 1711 - 1714
William Conyngham Plunket: 1803 - 1805
William Conyngham Plunket: 1822 - 1827
Henry Joy: 1827 - 1830

full list required before 1830

1830-1922

Henry Joy continued in office 1830
Edward Pennefather: 23 December 1830
Francis Blackburne: 11 January 1831
office vacant: 17 November 1834
Louis Perrin: 29 April 1835
Michael O'Loghlen: 31 August 1835
John Richards: 10 November 1836
Stephen Woulfe: 3 February 1837
Nicholas Ball: 11 July 1838
Maziere Brady: 23 February 1839
David Richard Pigot: 11 August 1840
Francis Blackburne: 23 September 1841
Thomas Berry Cusack Smith: 1 November 1842
Richard Wilson Greene: 2 February 1846
Richard Moore: 16 July 1846
James Henry Monahan: 21 December 1847
John Hatchell: 23 September 1850
Joseph Napier: February 1852
Abraham Brewster: April 1853
William Keogh: March 1855
John David Fitzgerald: March 1856
James Whiteside: February 1858
John David Fitzgerald: June 1859
Rickard Deasy: February 1860
Thomas O'Hagan: 1861
James Anthony Lawson: 1865
John Edward Walsh: 25 July 1866
Michael Morris: 1 November 1866
Hedges Eyre Chatterton: 1867
Robert Warren: 1867
John Thomas Ball: 1868
Edward Sullivan: 12 December 1868
Charles Robert Barry: 26 January 1870
Richard Dowse: 13 January 1872
Christopher Palles: 5 November 1872
Hugh Law: 1873 ??
John Thomas Ball: 12 March 1874
Henry Ormsby: 21 January 1875
George Augustus Chichester May: 27 November 1875
Edward Gibson: 15 February 1877
Hugh Law: 10 May 1880
William Moore Johnson: 17 November 1881
Andrew Marshall Porter: 3 January 1883
John Naish: 19 December 1883
Samuel Walker: 1885
Hugh Holmes: 3 July 1885
Samuel Walker: February 1886
Hugh Holmes: August 1886
John George Gibson: 1887
Peter O'Brien: 1888
Dodgson Hamilton Madden: 1890
The Macdermot: August 1892
John Atkinson: 8 July 1895
James Campbell: 4 December 1905
Richard Robert Cherry: 22 December 1905
Redmond Barry: 2 December 1909
Charles O'Connor: 26 September 1911
Ignatius O'Brien: 24 June 1912
Thomas Molony: 10 April 1913
John Moriarty: 20 June 1913
Jonathan Pim: 1 July 1914
John Gordon: 8 June 1915
James Campbell: 9 April 1916
James O'Connor: 8 January 1917
Arthur Samuels: 7 April 1918
Denis Henry: 6 July 1919
Thomas Brown: 5 August 1921

office vacant from 16 August 1921

Attorneys-General for Ireland

See also