Richard Moore (Irish lawyer)

Richard Moore PC (d. 1858) was an Irish lawyer and judge.

Moore was Attorney-General for Ireland during part of Lord John Russell's Whig Government 1846-1852, holding that office from 16 July 1846 to 21 December 1847. He was then appointed as a judge of the Irish Queen's Bench and remained a judge until his death. He was one of the Special Commission judges appointed for the trial in which William Smith O'Brien was convicted of high treason for his part in the Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848 (The Queen v O'Brien (1849) 3 Cox C.C. 360). O'Brien's death sentence was commuted to one of transportation and he received an unconditional pardon in 1856, after which he returned to Ireland.

From 1840 until his death Moore lived in Rathfarnham, Dublin,secondary school for boys founded by Padraic Pearse. The house and grounds have been owned by the State since 1968 and the house is now the Pearse Museum (Healy (2004) p 197.)

References

Doheny, Michael (1914). The Felon's Track. Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son. (available at Project Gutenberg [1])

Healy, Paddy (2004). Archaeology, Early Christian remains and local histories: Paddy Healy's Dublin. Dublin: South Dublin Libraries. ISBN 09 547 6601E6. (available at http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie)

Legal offices
Preceded by David Richard Pigot	Solicitor-General for Ireland 1840–1841	Succeeded by Edward Pennefather
Preceded by Richard Wilson Greene	Attorney-General for Ireland 1846–1847	Succeeded by James Henry Monahan

Dublin Castle administration in Ireland

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland · Lord Justices · Chief Secretary for Ireland · Under-Secretary for Ireland · Lord Chancellor of Ireland · Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland · Attorney-General for Ireland · Solicitor-General for Ireland

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Date of death	1858
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