Francis Stack Murphy SL (1810? – 1860) was an Irish lawyer, scholar and

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Life

Born in

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, Murphy was the son of the merchant Jeremiah Murphy and the nephew of John Murphy,

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. He was educated at

Clongowes Wood College Clongowes Wood College SJ is a voluntary boarding school for boys near Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, founded by the Jesuits in 1814, which features prominently in James Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Yo ...

and

Trinity College, Dublin , name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin , motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin) , motto_lang = la , motto_English = It will last i ...

; he graduated B.A. in 1829 and M.A. in 1832. He was called to the bar on 25 January 1833 at

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. In 1834, he became connected with ''Fraser's Magazine'' as an occasional contributor, assisting 'Father Prout' in his famous 'Reliques.' He was an excellent classical scholar, and was responsible for some of Mahony's Greek and Latin verses. Mahony introduces him in his 'Prout Papers' as 'Frank Cresswell of Furnival's Inn.' In 1841, he ran for election as a

for

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, which he won and took office on 5 July. He was made a

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in February 1842 and was granted a

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in 1846. He resigned as an MP in January 1846, but was re-elected again without opposition in 1851 after the resignation of

William Trant Fagan William Trant Fagan (31 January 1801 – 16 May 1859) was an Irish writer and Member of Parliament (MP) from Cork. Family Fagan was the son of James Fagan and his wife Ellen Trust. On 21 June 1827, he married Mary Addis, the daughter of Charle ...

. On 1 August 1853, he was made a Commissioner for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors. He died on 17 June 1860.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, Francis Stack 1810 births 1860 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Members of Lincoln's Inn Catholic Unionists Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cork City People educated at Clongowes Wood College Serjeants-at-law (Ireland) UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857