Robert Richard Warren PC

Privy Council of Ireland

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, QC

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 (3 June 1817 – 24 September 1897) was an Irish Conservative Party

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP) in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge.

Warren was the son of Captain Henry Warren, eighth son of Sir Robert Warren, 1st Baronet (see Warren Baronets

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). He attended Trinity College, Dublin

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, before being called to the Irish Bar in 1839. He became a Queen's Counsel

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 (QC) in 1858. Warren was Solicitor-General for Ireland

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 from March 1867 and Attorney-General for Ireland

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 from October 1867 to 1868. He was made a member of the Privy Council of Ireland

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 on 12 October 1867.

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

Warren retired from the House of Commons

British House of Commons

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when Parliament was dissolved in 1868. Soon afterwards he was appointed a Judge.