Richard Davies Ireland

Richard Davies Ireland (1816 – 11 January 1877) was an Australian politician, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Attorney-General.^[1]^[2]

Ireland was born in Galway, educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1837)^[2] and was called to the Irish bar in 1838.^[3]

Ireland emigrated to Victoria in 1852, and was called to the local bar in the following year.^[3] His brilliant and gratuitous defence of the Ballarat rioters brought him enormous popularity, and he was elected to represent Castlemaine Boroughs in the Assembly in 1857, and was appointed Solicitor-General in March 1858 in the John O'Shanassy Ministry,^[4] retiring with his colleagues in October 1859, when he was returned for Maryborough.^[3] Ireland joined the Richard Heales Administration as Attorney-General in November 1860, but resigned in July 1861, four months before the fall of the Ministry. When the O'Shanassy Ministry, which succeeded, came in November, Ireland again became Attorney-General, retiring with his colleagues in June 1863, he did not again hold office.^[3] Ireland represented Villiers and Heytesbury from August 1861 until resigning in April 1864, he then represented Kilmore from February 1866 to December 1867.^[1]

Ireland died in South Yarra, Melbourne on 11 January 1877; his wife Sophia Mary, née Carr predeceased him. Sophia's sister, Selina, was married to Henry Samuel Chapman.

External links

"The Biographer". The Australasian. Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 13 January 1877. p. 1 Supplement: The Australasian Supplement. Retrieved 1 September 2014. (Obituary)

References

^ ^a ^b "Richard Davies Ireland". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b Woods, Janice Burns. "Ireland, Richard Davies (1815–1877)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mennell, Philip (1892). "Ireland, Hon. Richard Davies" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
^ "Appointment Solicitor General Richard Ireland MLA". Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 10 March 1858. p. 1858:477.

Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Alexander Palmer	Member for Castlemaine Boroughs August 1857 – August 1859 With: Robert Sitwell	District abolished
New district	Member for Maryborough October 1859 – December 1860 With: Michael Prendergast	Succeeded by Nathaniel Levi Michael Prendergast
Preceded by Alexander Russell	Member for Villiers and Heytesbury August 1861 – April 1864 With: Charles Gavan Duffy	Succeeded by Samuel MacGregor
Preceded by John O'Shanassy	Member for Kilmore February 1866 – December 1867	Succeeded by Lawrence Bourke
Political offices
Preceded by Thomas Fellows	Solicitor-General of Victoria March 1858 – October 1858	Succeeded by Travers Adamson
Preceded by John Wood	Attorney-General of Victoria November 1860 – July 1861	Succeeded by Cole Aspinall
Preceded by Cole Aspinall	Attorney-General of Victoria November 1861 – June 1863	Succeeded by George Higinbotham

[parl-1] "Richard Davies Ireland". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 2 January 2014.

[adb-2] Woods, Janice Burns. "Ireland, Richard Davies (1815–1877)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 2 January 2014.

[Mennell-3] Mennell, Philip (1892). "Ireland, Hon. Richard Davies" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

[gazette_1858_477-4] "Appointment Solicitor General Richard Ireland MLA". Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 10 March 1858. p. 1858:477.

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