Robert Richard Warren PC, QC (3 June 1817 – 24 September 1897) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a judge. Warren was the son of Captain Henry Warren, the eighth son of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet (see

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), and his wife Catherine Stewart, daughter of the Reverend William Stewart. He attended

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, and entered the

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before being called to the

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in 1839. He became a

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(QC) in 1858. Warren was

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from March 1867 and

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from October 1867 to 1868. He was made a member of the

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on 12 October 1867. He was MP for

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27 August 1867 – 1868. Warren retired from the

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when Parliament was dissolved in 1868. Soon afterwards he was appointed the Irish Probate Judge on the retirement of Richard Keatinge. On the creation of the

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in 1878, he was appointed the judge of the Probate Division and held office until his death in 1897. He married Mary Perry, daughter of Charles Perry of

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in 1846 and they had a son and three daughters.

Arms

References

* ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament: Vol. I 1832-1885'', edited by Michael Stenton (The Harvester Press 1976) *

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