Name |
Portrait |
Term of office |
Reason for leaving office |
William Basil |
|
18 July 1649[Note 1] |
24 January 1659[Note 2] |
Appointed as Chief Justice of the Upper Bench for Ireland |
Robert Shapcote |
|
March 1659 |
May 1659 |
Deprived of the position when the Rump Parliament was restored |
Unknown |
|
May 1659 |
February 1660 |
|
Robert Shapcote |
|
February 1660[Note 3] |
May 1660 |
Elected as MP for Tiverton in the Parliament of England in the Convention Parliament (1660), which assembled for the first time on 25 April 1660. |
Sir William Domville MP for Dublin County (1661-66) |
|
23 June 1660[Note 1] |
|
Retired |
Sir Richard Nagle MP for Cork County (1689) |
|
31 December 1686[Note 4] |
3 October 1691[Note 5][Note 6] |
Jacobite Ireland ceased to exist due to the Treaty of Limerick |
Sir John Temple |
|
30 October 1690[Note 4][Note 7] |
|
Retired |
Robert Rochfort MP for Westmeath |
|
10 May 1695[Note 4] |
12 June 1707 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
Alan Brodrick MP for Cork City |
|
12 June 1707[Note 4] |
24 December 1709 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland |
Viscount Midleton |
John Forster MP for Dublin City |
|
24 December 1709[Note 4] |
|
Dismissed[Note 8][1] - Appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland, 1714 |
Sir Richard Levinge, Bt MP for Longford Borough (to 1713) MP for Gowran (1713) MP for Kilkenny City (from 1713) |
|
4 June 1711[Note 4] |
|
Dismissed[Note 9][2][Note 10][3] - Appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland, 1721 |
George Gore MP for Longford Borough |
|
3 Nov 1714 |
13 May 1720 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) |
John Rogerson MP for Dublin City |
|
14 May 1720[Note 4] |
3 April 1727 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland |
Thomas Marlay MP for Lanesborough |
|
5 May 1727[Note 4] |
29 September 1730 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
Robert Jocelyn MP for Newtownards |
|
29 September 1730[Note 4] |
30 August 1739 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
Viscount Jocelyn |
John Bowes MP for Taghmon |
|
3 Sep 1739[Note 4] |
21 December 1741 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
Baron Bowes |
St George Caulfeild MP for Tulsk |
|
23 Dec 1741 [Note 4] |
27 August 1751 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland |
Warden Flood MP for Callan |
|
27 August 1751[Note 4] |
31 July 1760 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland |
Philip Tisdall MP for Dublin University (to 1776) MP for Armagh Borough (1768–69 and 1776–77) |
|
31 July 1760[Note 4] |
11 September 1777 |
Death |
John Scott MP for Mullingar |
|
17 Oct 1777[Note 4] |
|
Dismissed[Note 11][4] Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland, 1784 |
Earl of Clonmell |
Barry Yelverton MP for Carrickfergus |
|
2 July 1782[Note 4] |
29 November 1783 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
Viscount Avonmore |
John Fitzgibbon MP for Kilmallock |
|
29 Nov 1783[Note 4] |
13 June 1789 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
Earl of Clare |
Arthur Wolfe MP for Coleraine (to 1790) MP for Jamestown (1790-1797) MP for Dublin City (1797-1798) |
|
16 July 1789[Note 4] |
13 June 1798 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland |
Viscount Kilwarden |
John Toler MP for Gorey |
|
26 June 1798[Note 4] |
22 October 1800 [Note 2][Note 4] |
Appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland |
Earl of Norbury |
John Stewart MP for Bangor (Parliament of Ireland) (to 31 December 1800) MP for Tyrone (UK Parliament) (from 1 March 1802) |
|
9 December 1800 [Note 4] |
|
|
|
Retired/resigned[Note 12][5] citing |
Standish O'Grady[Note 13] |
|
28 May 1803 [Note 4][8] |
5 October 1805 [Note 2][Note 4] |
|
|
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
William Plunket MP for Midhurst (1807) |
|
15 October 1805 [Note 4] |
|
| Independent |
| Whig[Note 14][9] |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1822 - see below |
William Saurin |
|
15 May 1807 [Note 4] |
|
| Tory[Note 15][Note 16][12] |
Dismissed |
William Plunket MP for Dublin University |
|
15 January 1822 |
18 June 1827[Note 1] |
| Whig[Note 17][9] |
Appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland |
Henry Joy |
|
18 June 1827[Note 1] |
6 January 1831 [Note 1] |
| Tory[Note 18][13] |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
Edward Pennefather |
|
23 December 1830 [Note 19][15] |
|
| Tory[Note 20][16] |
Declined to serve |
Francis Blackburne |
|
11 January 1831 [Note 1][Note 21] |
|
| Tory[Note 22][17][Note 23][18] |
| Conservative[19] |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1841 - see below |
Louis Perrin MP for Cashel |
|
29 April 1835[Note 1] |
31 August 1835[Note 1] |
| Whig |
Appointed as a Judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland) |
Michael O'Loghlen MP for Dungarvan |
|
31 August 1835[Note 1] |
|
| Whig |
Appointed as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) |
John Richards |
|
10 November 1836[Note 1] |
|
| Whig |
Appointed as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) |
Stephen Woulfe MP for Cashel |
|
3 February 1837[Note 1] |
|
| Whig |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
Nicholas Ball MP for Clonmel |
|
11 July 1838[Note 1] |
|
| Whig |
Appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) |
Maziere Brady |
|
23 February 1839[Note 1] |
|
| Whig |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
David Richard Pigot MP for Clonmel |
|
11 August 1840 |
|
| Whig |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1846 |
Francis Blackburne |
|
23 September 1841 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
Thomas Berry Cusack Smith MP for Ripon, 1843-6 |
|
1 November 1842 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
Richard Wilson Greene |
|
2 February 1846 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) in 1852 |
Richard Moore |
|
16 July 1846 |
|
| Whig |
Appointed as a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench (Ireland) |
James Henry Monahan |
|
21 December 1847 |
|
| Whig |
Appointed as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland |
John Hatchell MP for Windsor |
|
23 September 1850 |
|
| Whig |
Ministry left office |
Joseph Napier MP for Dublin University |
|
February 1852 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1858 |
Abraham Brewster |
|
10 January 1853[20] |
|
| Peelite |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery in Ireland in 1866 |
William Keogh MP for Athlone |
|
March 1855 |
|
| Peelite |
Appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) |
John David Fitzgerald MP for Ennis |
|
March 1856 |
|
| Whig |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1859 - see below |
James Whiteside MP for Dublin University |
|
February 1858 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench for Ireland in 1866 |
John David Fitzgerald MP for Ennis |
|
June 1859 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench (Ireland) |
Rickard Deasy MP for Cork County |
|
February 1860 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) |
Thomas O'Hagan MP for Tralee (1863-65) |
|
1861 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) |
James Anthony Lawson MP for Portarlington |
|
1865 |
|
| Liberal |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) in December 1868 |
John Edward Walsh MP for Dublin University |
|
25 July 1866 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
Michael Morris MP for Galway Borough |
|
1 November 1866 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) |
Hedges Eyre Chatterton MP for Dublin University |
|
1867 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed Vice-Chancellor of Ireland |
Robert Warren MP for Dublin University |
|
1867 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed the Irish Probate Judge |
John Thomas Ball MP for Dublin University |
|
1868 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1874 - see below |
Edward Sullivan MP for Mallow |
|
12 December 1868 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
Charles Robert Barry[Note 24] |
|
26 January 1870 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Judge of the Court of Queen's Bench (Ireland) |
Richard Dowse MP for Londonderry City |
|
13 January 1872 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) |
Christopher Palles[Note 25] |
|
5 November 1872 |
10 February 1874[Note 2] |
| Liberal |
Appointed as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer |
John Thomas Ball MP for Dublin University |
|
12 March 1874 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
Henry Ormsby |
|
21 January 1875 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Judge of the Landed Estates Court |
George Augustus Chichester May[Note 26] |
|
27 November 1875 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench for Ireland |
Edward Gibson MP for Dublin University |
|
15 February 1877 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1885 |
Hugh Law MP for County Londonderry |
|
10 May 1880 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
William Moore Johnson MP for Mallow |
|
17 November 1881 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
Andrew Marshall Porter MP for County Londonderry |
|
3 January 1883 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
John Naish[Note 27] |
|
19 December 1883 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
Samuel Walker MP for County Londonderry |
|
1885 |
|
| Liberal |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1886 - see below |
Hugh Holmes MP for Dublin University |
|
3 July 1885 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1886 - see below |
Samuel Walker[Note 28] |
|
February 1886 |
|
| Liberal |
Ministry left office - he was appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1892 |
Hugh Holmes MP for Dublin University |
|
August 1886 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
John George Gibson MP for Liverpool Walton |
|
1887 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
Peter O'Brien |
|
1888 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland |
Dodgson Hamilton Madden MP for Dublin University |
|
1890 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
John Atkinson |
|
1892[21] |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1895 - see below |
The Macdermot [Note 29] |
|
August 1892 |
|
| Liberal |
Ministry left office (he died before his party regained office) |
John Atkinson MP for North Londonderry |
|
8 July 1895 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary |
James Campbell MP for Dublin University |
|
4 December 1905 |
|
| Conservative |
Ministry left office - he was reappointed in 1916 - see below |
Richard Cherry MP for Liverpool Exchange (1906–10) |
|
22 December 1905 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland |
Redmond Barry MP for North Tyrone (1907–11) |
|
2 December 1909 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
Charles O'Connor |
|
26 September 1911 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Master of the Rolls in Ireland |
Ignatius O'Brien |
|
24 June 1912 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
Thomas Molony |
|
10 April 1913 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
John Moriarty |
|
20 June 1913 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Lord Justice of the Court of Appeal in Ireland |
Jonathan Pim |
|
1 July 1914 |
|
| Liberal |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
John Gordon MP for South Londonderry |
|
8 June 1915 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
James Campbell MP for Dublin University |
|
9 April 1916 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as Lord Chief Justice of Ireland |
James O'Connor |
|
8 January 1917 |
|
| Irish Nationalist |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
Arthur Samuels MP for Dublin University |
|
7 April 1918 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland |
Denis Henry MP for South Londonderry |
|
6 July 1919 |
|
| Conservative |
Appointed as the first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, 15 August 1921 |
Thomas Watters Brown MP for North Down |
|
5 August 1921 |
16 November 1921 |
| Conservative |
Appointed as a Judge of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland, 8 February 1922 |