Echlin Molyneux ( – 1886) was an Irish barrister,

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, County Judge for

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, Professor of Equity at Dublin Law Institute, Professor of English Law, then dean of the law faculty at

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. He was instrumental in raising standards for legal practitioners through both the Law Institute and university education in

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, with a particular interest in equity.The Citizen. p. 140, Vol. I, Nov. 1839 - May 1840, Dublin.

Life

He was the only son of James Molyneux and Anne Hathorne. He lived for many years in Bray, County Wicklow. He retired to

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, where he died in 1886.

Family

Echlin Molyneux married: # Mary Napier, daughter of William Napier and Rosetta MacNaghten and sister of Sir Joseph Napier (

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), on 7 July 1828 and had one son, James Henry Molyneux. Mary Napier died in 1831. # Mary Osborne and had 2 daughters, Melinda and Elizabeth plus one son, Echlin. # Hannah Moore, daughter of Frederick Moore, and had 2 sons, Frederick and Evans plus one daughter, Sarah Frances.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Molyneux, Echlin Academics of Queen's University Belfast 1800s births 1886 deaths People from Bray, County Wicklow Lawyers from County Wicklow 18th-century Irish judges