Richard Benson Warren (1784-1848) was an Irish

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and Law Officer who held the position of

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.Hart p.184 He was born at Warrens Court, near

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, the seventh son of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet, and the eldest by his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Lawton.''Burke's Peerage'' Vol. 3 p.4077 The Warrens had been prominent landowners in Cork since about 1700, and had acquired the lands of the Crooke family (who founded the town of

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) by his grandfather's marriage to Anne Crooke. Warrens Court was burnt to the ground in 1921 during the

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. He entered

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in 1800. He was called to the

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in 1806, and became

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in 1824. He became a Bencher of the

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in 1839. He was appointed Third Serjeant in 1841, and Second Serjeant in 1842, holding the latter office until his death in 1848. He married Elizabeth Pendleton, daughter of Philip Pendelton of Mooretown,

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, and had seven children. Of their sons Robert, like his father, was a barrister, while Augustus was a distinguished soldier who rose to the rank of Major General. Their daughter Martha married James Stewart, a land agent, and was the mother of Robert Warren Stewart, a well-known

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who was murdered in

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, and of George Francis Stewart, Governor of the

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. Robert Warren, judge of the Irish

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1868–1897, was his nephew, the son of his brother Captain Henry Warren.

References

*Mosley, Charles, ed. ''Burke's Peerage'' 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol. 3 *Hart, A. R. ''History of the King's Serjeants at law in Ireland'' Four Courts Press Dublin 2000

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Richard Benson Serjeants-at-law (Ireland) Lawyers from County Cork Younger sons of baronets 1784 births 1848 deaths Irish King's Counsel 18th-century Irish lawyers People from Macroom