Robert Warren (Irish politician)

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 Warren baronets), and his wife Catherine Stewart. He attended Trinity College, Dublin, and entered the Middle Temple before being called to the Irish Bar in 1839. He became a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1858. Warren was Solicitor-General for Ireland from March 1867 and Attorney-General for Ireland from October 1867 to 1868. He was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland on 12 October 1867.

He was MP for Dublin University 27 August 1867 – 1868.

Warren retired from the House of Commons when Parliament was dissolved in 1868. Soon afterwards he was appointed the Irish Probate Judge. On the creation of the High Court of Justice in Ireland in 1878 he was appointed the judge of the Probate Division and held office until his death in 1897. He married Mary Perry in 1846.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Anthony Lefroy
Hedges Eyre Chatterton
Member of Parliament for Dublin University
18671868
With: Anthony Lefroy
Succeeded by
Anthony Lefroy
John Thomas Ball
Political offices
Preceded by
Hedges Eyre Chatterton
Solicitor-General for Ireland
1867
Succeeded by
Michael Harrison
Preceded by
Hedges Eyre Chatterton
Attorney-General for Ireland
18671868
Succeeded by
John Thomas Ball