Edward Sullivan Murphy PC(NI) KC (3 February 1880 – 3 December 1945) was an Irish

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and politician. He was brother-in-law to the first

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, Sir

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, Bt. (they both married daughters of Lord Justice

Hugh Holmes Hugh Holmes QC (17 February 1840 – 18 April 1916) was an Irish Conservative Party, then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal in ...

). He was the fourth son of James Murphy (1823-1901), judge of the

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, and Mary Keogh, daughter of

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, judge of the

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and Kate Rooney. He was educated at

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, and

Trinity College, Dublin Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...

where he studied Classics. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1903 and the English Bar in 1921. He was elected to the Northern Ireland Senate as an

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member on 22 March 1929, but resigned on 11 April of the same year in order to contest the City of Londonderry seat at the

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. He thus had the shortest term of any Senator in Northern Ireland.John F. Harbinson, ''The Ulster Unionist Party, 1882–1973'', p.207 Murphy won the seat, and held it at subsequent elections. He served as

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from 1937–1939, and resigned from the office and from Parliament upon appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland in 1939, as which he served until his death. His first wife Alice Holmes died in 1942; he remarried Mary Craig Buchanan.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, Edward Sullivan 1880 births 1945 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish barristers Ulster Unionist Party members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1925–1929 Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1929–1933 Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1933–1938 Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland 1938–1945 Members of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland Attorneys general for Northern Ireland Northern Ireland junior government ministers (Parliament of Northern Ireland) Lords Justice of Appeal of Northern Ireland Members of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for County Londonderry constituencies Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland