MURPHY, Francis. b. Navan, co. Meath 20 May 1795; ed. at St. Patrick’s college, Maynooth; ordained R.C. priest 1826; missioner at Bradford, Yorkshire 1826–9; priest of St. Anne’s, Toxteth park, Liverpool 1829–38; went to New South Wales 1838; vicar general of Australia 1838; bishop of the new see of Adelaide 1844 to death, consecrated in St. Mary’s cathedral, Sydney 8 Sept. 1844; began the erection of a cathedral in Victoria st. Adelaide; established 21 churches in South Australia; author of A letter to J. Taylor on his attack on Dr. Baines’ sermon at Bradford 1827. d. West terrace, Adelaide 26 April 1858.
MURPHY, Sir Francis (son of Francis D. Murphy, head of the South of Ireland transport of convicts’ department 30 years). b. Cork 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; M.R.C.S. London 1832; arrived in Sydney, N.S.W. June 1836; district surgeon for Bungonia, Argyle county 1 Jany. 1837, resigned 1840; settled on a large station at Goulburn 1840, became the chief grain grower in the country; removed to Port Philip 1847, farmed about 50,000 acres at Tarawingi, sold his station 1852; member for Murray in legislative council of Victoria 1851–6, and in legislative assembly 1856–65; chairman of committees Nov. 1851–53; chairman of central road board March 1853 to Nov. 1856; speaker of the assembly Oct. 1856 to 24 Jany. 1871; knighted by patent 24 May 1860; member for Grenville in the assembly 1865–71, and for the Eastern province 1872–7; presented with £3,000 for his services as speaker 1871; chairman of the league against transportation 1863; chairman of National bank of Australia. d. St. Hilda road, Melbourne 30 March 1891.
Note.—His eldest son Francis Reid Murphy, member of legislative assembly of Queensland. d. Rockhampton, Queensland 24 Feb. 1892, in his 50th year.
MURPHY, Francis Stack (son of Jeremiah Murphy, merchant). b. Cork 1807; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin, classical gold medallist 1829, B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; barrister L.I. 25 Jany. 1833; assisted F. S. Mahony, otherwise Father Prout, in his Reliques in Frazer’s Mag. 1834; Mahony introduces him in his Prout Papers as Frank Cresswell of Furnival’s Inn; M.P. Cork 1841–6, and 1851–3; serjeant-at-law 25 Feb. 1842; received patent of precedence 1846; a comr. for relief of insolvent debtors, London 1 Aug. 1853 to death; a noted wit, many of his repartees are recorded in Duffy’s League of north and south (1886) 211, 227, and in Serjeant Robinson’s Bench and bar (1891); author with E. T. Hurlstone of Reports of cases argued in the court of exchequer 1836–1837. 1838. d. Kensington, London 17 June 1860. Bates’s Maclise portrait gallery (1883) 464–7; I.L.N. iv 107 (1844) portrait; Law Times xxxv 191 (1860).
MURPHY, George Mollett (son of a shop keeper who d. 1845). b. Chelsea, London 9 Sept. 1823; enlisted in 56 regt. 1839, became a corporal, his discharge purchased by his mother 1845; an officer on board the convict ship York at Portsmouth 1848–52; signed the teetotal pledge 1850; a time keeper to Fox, Henderson and co. Birmingham 1852–5; an open air preacher at Birmingham 1852; an evangelical preacher in Hawkstone hall, Waterloo bridge road, London 1856 etc.; lectured at Guilford street hall, his first lecture was on the History of an apple dumpling, with cooked specimens 15 Nov. 1858; opened Lambeth baths for religious services during many seasons; minister of the Borough road chapel Jany. 1866 to death; held Working classes’ industrial exhibitions in Lambeth baths 1864 etc.; contested a Lambeth division seat for the school board 1870; a member for the Lambeth division 1873–87; wrote The drama of dirt, or death and disease upheld, acted at Portsmouth 1852; author of The slave among pirates, or Uncle Tim’s many editors, a satire, by An Unknown 1852; Anti-Alcohol, a warning voice from a prison, a poem 1852; Bands of hope and Sunday schools, how to unite them 1860; The downfall of the drink Dagon 1865; Parental aid, or speed the plough, a new year’s address 1863; A ten years’ story, a statement of results of Southwark mission for the education of the working classes 1866; Popular melodies and hymns for temperance meetings 1870, 2 ed. 1872. d. 8 Finchley road, Lorrimer sq. London 17 July 1887. bur. Abney park cemet. 22 July. Annie Taylor’s Life of G. M. Murphy (1888) portrait; The Biograph iv 233–7 (1880).
MURPHY, George Stormont. Founded the Cabdrivers’ benevolent association at 15 Soho sq. London 1870, honorary secretary 1870 to death. d. 46 Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 8 Feb. 1893. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 14 Feb., the funeral procession extended upwards of a mile in length, being mainly composed of cabdrivers with their cabs.
MURPHY, James. Called to Irish bar 1849; Q.C. 22 June 1866; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1871. d. 1883.
MURPHY, Jeremiah John (younger son of John Murphy of Cork). b. Cork 1803; ed. at Clongowes Wood college and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar Jany. 1828; Q.C. 17 Aug. 1841; bencher of Kings’ Inns 1847; a master in chancery 1846–74, when offices of masters were abolished. d. 50 Upper Mount st. Dublin 25 June 1878. bur. in Glasnevin cemet. Law mag. and law review iii 206 (1857).
MURPHY, John. b. Omagh, co. Tyrone 12 March 1812; taken to U.S. of America 1822; apprenticed to a printer at Philadelphia 1826; a printer at Baltimore 1835, became one of the chief Roman Catholic publishers; issued the United States Catholic Mag. 1842–9; published the Metropolitan Mag. 1853–9; printed a translation of the Definition of the dogma of the immaculate conception 1855, for which Pope Pius IX sent him a gold medal; issued the Proceedings of the second plenary council of Baltimore 1866, for which Pius IX conferred upon him honorary title of printer to the pope, a distinction that had never been bestowed on a resident of any English speaking country. d. Baltimore, Maryland 27 May 1880.
MURPHY, Miles. b. Oulart, near Gorey, co. Wexford 8 Sept. 1787; ed. at Maynooth to 1811; president of Wexford college from 1811 for many years; declined the see of Ossory 1828; parish priest of Tintern 1831; parish priest of Wexford 1835–50; vicar capitular 1849; bishop of Ferns 19 Nov. 1849 to death, consecrated 10 March 1850. d. Ballin, Oulart 13 Aug. 1856. bur. Enniscorthy cathedral 18 Aug. The Tablet 16 Aug. 1856 p. 524, 23 Aug. p. 540.