Richard Benson Warren (1784-1848) was an Irish

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and Law Officer who held the position of Serjeant-at-law (Ireland).Hart p.184 He was born at Warrens Court, near Macroom,

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, the seventh son of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet, and the eldest by his father's second marriage to Elizabeth Lawton.''Burke's Peerage'' Vol. 3 p.4077 The Warrens had been prominent landowners in Cork since about 1700, and had acquired the lands of the Crooke family (who founded the town of Baltimore, County Cork) by his grandfather's marriage to Anne Crooke. Warrens Court was burnt to the ground in 1921 during the

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. He entered Trinity College Dublin in 1800. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1806, and became

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in 1824. He became a Bencher of the

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in 1839. He was appointed Third Serjeant in 1841, and Second Serjeant in 1842, holding the latter office until his death in 1848. He married Elizabeth Pendleton, daughter of Philip Pendelton of Mooretown,

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, and had seven children. Of their sons Robert, like his father, was a barrister, while Augustus was a distinguished soldier who rose to the rank of

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. Their daughter Martha married James Stewart, a land agent, and was the mother of Robert Warren Stewart, a well-known

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who was murdered in

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, and of George Francis Stewart, Governor of the

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. Robert Warren, judge of the Irish Probate Court 1868–1897, was his nephew, the son of his brother Captain Henry Warren.

References

*Mosley, Charles, ed. ''Burke's Peerage'' 107th Edition Delaware 2003 Vol. 3 *Hart, A. R. ''History of the King's Serjeants at law in Ireland'' Four Courts Press Dublin 2000

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Warren, Richard Benson Serjeants-at-law (Ireland) Lawyers from County Cork Younger sons of baronets 1784 births 1848 deaths Irish Queen's Counsel 18th-century Irish lawyers People from Macroom