John Edward Walsh (12 November 1816 – 20 October 1869) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequently Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Walsh was born at Finglas, County Dublin, where his father, Robert Walsh, was rector. He was educated at Bective College, and matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, in July, 1832. He graduated B.A.

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  • John Edward Walsh (12 November 1816 – 20 October 1869) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequently Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Walsh was born at Finglas, County Dublin, where his father, Robert Walsh, was rector. He was educated at Bective College, and matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, in July, 1832. He graduated B.A. in 1836, obtaining a senior moderatorship in ethics and logics and gaining a gold medal. He was a distinguished speaker also at the College Historical Society. Walsh was called to the Irish Bar in 1839, and graduated LL.D. in his University in 1845. He published, in collaboration with Richard Nun, Q.C. , a work on The Powers and Duties of Justices of the Peace in Ireland, which was long a standard text-book on this subject. He was a reporter in the Court of Chancery from 1843 to 1852; was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1857, and Crown Prosecutor for Dublin in 1859. He was MP for Dublin University 1866-1867. He was Attorney General for Ireland 25 July-1 November 1866. He was also made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland 17 August 1866. Walsh left the House of Commons when he was appointed Master of the Rolls in Ireland in 1867, an office he held until his death. It seemed probable that a long and distinguished career lay before him, but it was not to be. In the autumn of 1869 he went on a tour to Italy, his health not being very robust. He contracted fever in the Roman Compagna and died at Paris on his way home on 20 October. He published in 1847 Ireland Sixty Years Ago, dealing with Grattan's Parliament and the first quarter of the 19th century, which was published originally as a series of articles in the Dublin University Magazine. It was afterwards re-issued in 1877 as Ireland Ninety Years Ago.
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  • John Edward Walsh (12 November 1816 – 20 October 1869) was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and subsequently Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Walsh was born at Finglas, County Dublin, where his father, Robert Walsh, was rector. He was educated at Bective College, and matriculated at Trinity College, Dublin, in July, 1832. He graduated B.A.
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  • John Edward Walsh
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