The Solicitor-General for Ireland was the holder of an Irish

Kingdom of Ireland

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 and then (from the Act of Union 1800

Act of Union 1800

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) United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 government office. The holder was a deputy to the Attorney-General for Ireland

Attorney-General for Ireland

The Attorney-General for Ireland was an Irish and then United Kingdom government office. The holder was senior to the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and advised the Crown on Irish legal matters...

, and advised the Crown

The Crown

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 on Irish legal matters. At least one holder of the office, Patrick Barnewall (1534-1550 ) played a significant role in Government. The first record of a Solicitor General is in 1504; early Solicitors invariably had the rank of King's Serjeant. In the sixteenth century a Principal Solicitor for Ireland simultaneously performed the same function. With the establishment of the Irish Free State

Irish Free State

The Irish Free State was the state established as a Dominion on 6 December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed by the British government and Irish representatives exactly twelve months beforehand...

 in 1922, the duties of the Attorney General and Solicitor General for Ireland were taken over by the Attorney General of Ireland

Attorney General of Ireland

The Attorney General is a constitutional officer who is the official adviser to the Government of Ireland in matters of law. He is in effect the chief law officer in Ireland. The Attorney General is not a member of the Government but does participate in cabinet meetings when invited and attends...

.

16th century

• Thomas Rochfort
  Thomas Rochfort
  Thomas Rochfort was a distinguished Irish judge and cleric who held the offices of Solicitor General for Ireland, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin....
  
  , appointed 1511
• Thomas Luttrell
  Thomas Luttrell
  Sir Thomas Luttrell was a leading Anglo-Irish nobleman of the sixteenth-century Irish Pale, and was also a distinguished lawyer and judge who held the offices of Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas....
  
  : 9 September 1532 - 1534
• Patrick Barnewall
  Patrick Barnewall (Solicitor General)
  Patrick Barnewall was a leading figure in the Irish Government in the 1530s and 1540s, due largely to his close links with Thomas Cromwell. He held the offices of Solicitor General for Ireland and Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Today he is remembered mainly for his role in founding the King's Inns...
  
  : 17 October 1534 - 1550
• John Bathe
  John Bathe (politician)
  John Bathe was a member of a famous legal dynasty and himself had a distinguished career under the Tudors, being Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas....
  
  : 16 October 1550 - 1554
• James Dowdall: 20 July 1554 - 1565
• Nicholas Nugent
  Nicholas Nugent
  Nicholas Nugent was an Irish judge, unique among the Irish judiciary in being hanged for treason. He had had a highly successful career, holding office as Solicitor General for Ireland, Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer, and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, but was destroyed by the...
  
  : 17 April 1565 - 1574
• Richard Bellyng: February 1574 - 1584
• Jesse Smythes: 7 July 1584 - 1586
• Roger Wilbraham
  Roger Wilbraham
  Sir Roger Wilbraham was a prominent English lawyer who served as Solicitor-General for Ireland under Elizabeth I and held positions at court under James I, including Master of Requests and surveyor of the Court of Wards and Liveries...
  
  : 11 February 1586 - 1603

17th century

• Sir John Davies
  John Davies (poet)
  Sir John Davies was an English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.-Early life:...
  
  : 18 September 1603 - 1606
• Sir Robert Jacobe
  Robert Jacobe
  Sir Robert Jacob or Jacobe was Solicitor General for Ireland between 1606 and 1618. He was a friend and close associate of Sir John Davies, the Attorney General who was the key figure in the Irish administration.- Family :...
  
  : 19 April 1606 - 1618
• Sir Richard Bolton
  Richard Bolton
  Sir Richard Bolton was an English lawyer, an important figure in the politics of Ireland in the 1630s and 1640s.- Life :He was son of John Bolton, of Fenton, Staffordshire, and born about 1570...
  
  : 31 December 1618 - 1622
• Sir Edward Bolton
  Edward Bolton
  Edward Bolton was an English-born judge who served for many years as Solicitor General for Ireland before succeeding his father Sir Richard Bolton as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer....
  
  : 5 December 1622 - 1640
• Sir William Sambach: 8 June 1640 - ??
• William Ellice
  William Ellis (solicitor-general)
  Sir William Ellis was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1679.-Life:...
  
  : 1657 - 1658 (Commonwealth)
• Robert Shapcote
  Robert Shapcote
  Robert Shapcote was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1646 and 1660 and sat in the Irish House of Commons from 1661 to 1665...
  
  : 1658 - 1660 (Commonwealth)
• Sir John Temple: 10 July 1660 - 1689
• Sir Theobald Butler: 1689 - 25 July 1689
• Sir Richard Levinge, Bt
  Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet
  Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and judge.Leving was a Member of Parliament of the English House of Commons for Chester from 1690 to 1695. In 1692 he also became a member of the Irish House of Commons for Blessington, a seat he held until 1695. During this time he served...
  
   3 November 1689 - 1695
• Alan Brodrick
  Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton
  Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton PC was an Irish lawyer and politician.-Background:He was the second son of Sir St John Brodrick of Ballyannan, near Midleton in County Cork, by his wife Alice , daughter of Laurence Clayton of Mallow, County Cork and sister of Colonel Randall Clayton M.P., of...
  
  : 10 May 1695 - 1704

18th century

• Sir Richard Levinge, Bt
  Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet
  Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician and judge.Leving was a Member of Parliament of the English House of Commons for Chester from 1690 to 1695. In 1692 he also became a member of the Irish House of Commons for Blessington, a seat he held until 1695. During this time he served...
  
  : 4 April 1704 - 1709
• John Forster
  John Forster (Chief Justice)
  -Background:Forster was born in Dublin, the son of Richard Forster and his wife Anne Webber. His father sat in the Irish House of Commons for Swords and came from a family long associated with the Dublin business community.-Career:...
  
  : 8 September 1709 - 24 December 1709
• William Whitshed
  William Whitshed
  William Whitshed was an Irish politician and Solicitor-General. He became the Member of Parliament for Wicklow County in 1703, and was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1709.-References:...
  
  : 24 December 1709 - 1711
• Francis Bernard
  Francis Bernard (lawyer)
  Francis Bernard SL was an Irish lawyer and politician.He was the son of Francis Bernard of Castle Mahon. Bernard sat as Member of Parliament in the Irish House of Commons. He represented Clonakilty between 1692 and 1695 and subsequently Bandonbridge between 1695 and 1727...
  
  : 4 June 1711 - 1714
• John Rogerson
  John Rogerson (1676–1741)
  John Rogerson was an Irish politician lawyer and judge who became Solicitor-General Attorney-General for Ireland and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland. He was Member of Parliament for Granard and Dublin City. He was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1714...
  
  : 8 November 1714 - 14 May 1720
• Thomas Marlay
  Thomas Marlay
  Thomas Marlay was an Irish judge, remembered now as the builder of Celbridge Abbey and as the grandfather of the statesman Henry Grattan....
  
  : 13 October 1720 - 1727
• Robert Jocelyn
  Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn
  Robert Jocelyn, 1st Viscount Jocelyn PC SL was an English-Irish politician and member of the Peerage of Ireland. He is best known for serving as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.-Early life:...
  
  : 5 April 1727 - 29 September 1730
• John Bowes
  John Bowes, 1st Baron Bowes
  John Bowes, 1st Baron Bowes PC was an Irish peer and politician.-Life:He was born in London, son of Thomas Bowes, a merchant, and was called to the Bar in 1712. He came to Ireland as a member of the staff of Richard West, the Lord Chancellor in 1723...
  
  : 29 September 1730 - 3 September 1739
• St George Caulfeild
  St George Caulfeild
  St George Caulfeild was an Irish lawyer.He sat in the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Tulsk between 1727 and 1751...
  
  : 24 September 1739 - 23 December 1741
• Warden Flood
  Warden Flood
  Warden Flood was an Irish judge. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1741, Attorney-General for Ireland in 1751, and in 1760 was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench...
  
  : 24 December 1741 - 27 August 1751
• Philip Tisdall
  Philip Tisdall
  Philip Tisdall SL was an Irish lawyer and politician.He sat in the Irish House of Commons for Dublin University from 1739 to 1776 and then for the city of Armagh from 1776 to his death...
  
  : 27 August 1751 - 31 July 1760
• John Gore
  John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly
  John Gore, 1st Baron Annaly PC was an Irish politician and peer.He was the son of George Gore, in turn son of Sir Arthur Gore, 1st Baronet, and his wife Bridget Sankey, younger daughter of John Sankey. Gore was called to the Bar by King's Inns and worked as barrister-at-law...
  
  : 31 July 1760 - 24 August 1764
• Marcus Paterson
  Marcus Paterson
  Marcus Paterson was an Irish politician, Solicitor-General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas. He became the Member of Parliament for Ballynakill in 1756 and Lisburn in 1768. He was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1764 and became Chief Justice of Common Pleas in 1770...
  
  : 29 August 1764 - 18 June 1770
• Godfrey Lill
  Godfrey Lill
  Godfrey Lill was an Irish politician, Solicitor-General for Ireland, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas . He became the Member of Parliament for Fore in 1761 and Baltinglass in 1768...
  
  : 18 June 1770 - 1774
• John Scott
  John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell
  John Scott, 1st Earl of Clonmell PC KC SL , known as The Lord Earlsfort between 1784 and 1789 and as The Viscount Clonmell between 1789 and 1793, was an Irish barrister and judge...
  
  : 13 July 1774 - 17 October 1777
• Robert Hellen
  Robert Hellen
  Robert Hellen was an Irish politician, Solicitor-General, and judge of the Court of Common Pleas . He became the Member of Parliament for Bannow in 1768 and Fethard in 1776...
  
  : 31 October 1777 - 1779
• Hugh Carleton: 7 April 1779 - 30 April 1787
• Arthur Wolfe
  Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden
  Arthur Wolfe, 1st Viscount Kilwarden KC was an Irish peer, politician and judge.Wolfe was born at , near Naas, being the fifth son of John Wolfe and his wife Mary Philpot. Wolfe was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was called to the Irish Bar in 1766...
  
  : 1 May 1787 - 16 July 1789
• John Toler
  John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury
  John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury PC, KC , known as The Lord Norbury between 1800 and 1827, was an Irish lawyer, politician and judge. A greatly controversial figure in his time, he was Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas between 1800 and 1827...
  
  : 16 July 1789 - 26 June 1798
• John Stewart
  Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet, of Athenree
  Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet was an Irish lawyer and politician.In 1794, he was elected to the Irish House of Commons for Augher. At the 1797 elections, he was elected for four constituencies: Askeaton, Bangor, Portarlington and Strabane...
  
  : 26 June 1798 - 9 December 1799

19th century

• William Cusack-Smith: 6 December 1800 - 1801
• James McClelland
  James McClelland (Solicitor-General)
  James McClelland was an Irish politician and Solicitor-General. He attended Dublin University. He became the Member of Parliament for Randalstown in 1798, and was appointed as Solicitor-General in 1801.-References:...
  
  : 17 December 1801 - 1803
• William Conynham Plunket: 22 October 1803 - 15 October 1805
• Charles Kendal Bushe
  Charles Kendal Bushe
  Charles Kendal Bushe , was an Irish lawyer and judge. Known as "silver-tongued Bushe", he was Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1805 to 1822 and Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland from 1822 to 1841....
  
  : 15 October 1805 - 14 February 1822
• Henry Joy
  Henry Joy (judge)
  Henry Joy was an Irish judge. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1822, and Attorney-General for Ireland in 1827. He was made Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer in 1831, a post he held until his death in 1838.-References:...
  
  : 20 February 1822 - 18 June 1827
• John Doherty
  John Doherty (politician)
  John Doherty was a politician, Solicitor-General for Ireland and senior judge.-Background and education:Doherty was born in Dublin, the son of John Doherty and his wife Margaret Verney. He was educated at Chester School and the University of Dublin and was called to the Bar 1808.-Legal and...
  
  : 18 June 1827 - 23 December 1830
• Philip Cecil Crampton
  Philip Cecil Crampton
  Philip Cecil Crampton PC was a judge, politician and Solicitor-General for Ireland. He was appointed Solicitor-General in 1830. He was elected Member of Parliament for Saltash in February 1831, and MP for Milborne Port in July 1831.-References:...
  
  : 23 December 1830 - 21 October 1834
• Michael O'Loghlen: 21 October 1834 - 1834
• Edward Pennefather
  Edward Pennefather
  Edward Pennefather PC, KC was an Irish judge.Pennefather was born in Tipperary, the second son of William Pennefather and his wife Ellen Moore. He went to school in Clonmel and graduated from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1795 and was King's Counsel by 1816...
  
  : 27 January 1835 - 1835
• Michael O'Loghlen: 29 April 1835 - 1835
• John Richards
  John Richards (Attorney General)
  John Richards was an Irish judge.Richards was born in Dublin, son of John Richards, solicitor, and his wife Elizabeth Fitzgerald. He graduated from the University of Dublin, was called to the Bar in 1811; King's Counsel in 1830...
  
  : 21 September 1835 - 10 November 1836
• Stephen Woulfe
  Stephen Woulfe
  Stephen Woulfe was an Irish barrister and Liberal politician. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland, 1836 and as Attorney-General for Ireland in 1838; he became first Catholic to be Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.-Life:...
  
  : 10 November 1836 - 3 February 1837
• Maziere Brady
  Maziere Brady
  Sir Maziere Brady, 1st Baronet PC was an Irish judge, notable for his exceptionally long tenure as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.Brady was born in Dublin, the second son of Francis Brady of Booterstown and his wife Charlotte Hodgson...
  
  : 3 February 1837 - February 1839
• David Richard Pigot
  David Richard Pigot
  David Richard Pigot PC, KC was one of the leading Irish judges of his time.Pigot was born in Kilrush, the only son of John Pigot, a doctor. He went to school in Fermoy and graduated from the University of Dublin...
  
  : 11 February 1839 - 14 August 1840
• Richard Moore
  Richard Moore (Irish lawyer)
  Richard Moore PC was an Irish lawyer and judge.Moore was Attorney-General for Ireland during part of Lord John Russell's Whig Government 1846-1852, holding that office from 16 July 1846 to 21 December 1847. He was then appointed as a judge of the Irish Queen's Bench and remained a judge until his...
  
  : 14 August 1840 - 1841
• Edward Pennefather
  Edward Pennefather
  Edward Pennefather PC, KC was an Irish judge.Pennefather was born in Tipperary, the second son of William Pennefather and his wife Ellen Moore. He went to school in Clonmel and graduated from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1795 and was King's Counsel by 1816...
  
   21 September 1841 - 1841
• Joseph Devonsher Jackson
  Joseph Devonsher Jackson
  Joseph Devonsher Jackson PC was an Irish Conservative MP in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. He was the eldest son of Strettell Jackson of Peterborough, County Cork....
  
  : 10 November 1841 - 9 September 1842
• Thomas Cusack-Smith: 21 September 1842 - 1 November 1842
• Richard Wilson Greene
  Richard Wilson Greene
  Richard Wilson Greene PC, KC was an Irish judge.Greene was born in Dublin, the son of Sir Jonas Greene, Recorder of Dublin, and graduated from the University of Dublin, where he was auditor of the College Historical Society. He was called to the Bar in 1814 and became King's Counsel in 1830. For...
  
  : 1 November 1842 - 2 February 1846
• Abraham Brewster
  Abraham Brewster
  Abraham Brewster PC was an Irish judge and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.-Background and education:Brewster was born at Ballinulta, the son of William Bagenal Brewster, of Ballinulta, County Wicklow, by his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Bates...
  
  : 2 February 1846 - June 1846
• James Henry Monahan
  James Henry Monahan
  James Henry Monahan was one of the outstanding Irish judges of his time, and one of the first Roman Catholics to achieve judicial eminence.-Background and education:...
  
  : 16 July 1846 - 24 December 1847
• John Hatchell
  John Hatchell
  John Hatchell PC was a lawyer and politician. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1809 and became King's Counsel in 1833. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1847, and Attorney-General for Ireland in 1850. He was elected Member of Parliament for Windsor in 1850....
  
  : 24 December 1847 - 23 September 1850
• Henry George Hughes
  Henry George Hughes
  Henry George Hughes was an Irish judge, politician, and third Baron of the Court of Exchequer. In 1850 he was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland. He was elected Member of Parliament for Longford in 1856....
  
  : 26 September 1850 - February 1852
• James Whiteside
  James Whiteside
  James Whiteside was an Irish politician and judge.-Background and education:Whiteside was the son of William Whiteside, a clergyman of the Church of Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, being called to the Irish bar in 1830.-Legal and judicial career:Whiteside very rapidly...
  
  : February 1852 - December 1852
• William Keogh
  William Keogh
  William Keogh PC was an unpopular and controversial Irish politician and judge, whose name became a byword for betraying one's political principles.- Background :...
  
  : April 1853 - March 1855
• John FitzGerald
  John FitzGerald, Baron FitzGerald
  John David FitzGerald, Baron FitzGerald PC, PC was an Irish judge and Liberal politician.-Background:...
  
  : March 1855 - March 1856
• Jonathan Christian
  Jonathan Christian
  Jonathan Christian QC, PC , was an Irish judge. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1856 to 1858.-References:...
  
  : March 1856 - February 1858
• Henry George Hughes
  Henry George Hughes
  Henry George Hughes was an Irish judge, politician, and third Baron of the Court of Exchequer. In 1850 he was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland. He was elected Member of Parliament for Longford in 1856....
  
  : February 1858 - 1858
• Edmund Hayes
  Edmund Hayes
  Edmund Hayes QC , was an Irish judge. In 1858 he became Solicitor-General for Ireland.-References:...
  
  : 1858 - June 1859
• John George: June 1859 - 1859
• Rickard Deasy
  Rickard Deasy
  Rickard Deasy PC was an Irish lawyer and judge.Dease was elected as Member of Parliament for County County on 23 April 1855 in a by-election following Edmond Roche's elevation to the peerage. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1859 and then made Attorney-General for Ireland in 1860,...
  
  : 1859 - February 1860
• Thomas O'Hagan
  Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan
  Thomas O'Hagan, 1st Baron O'Hagan KP, PC, QC , was an Irish lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland from 1868 to 1874 and again from 1880 to 1881.-Background and education:...
  
  : February 1860 - 1861
• James Anthony Lawson
  James Anthony Lawson
  James Anthony Lawson PC, QC , was an Irish academic, lawyer and judge.-Background and education:Lawson was born at Waterford, the eldest son of James Lawson, by Mary Anthony, daughter of Joseph Anthony, and was educated at the endowed school there...
  
  : 1861 - 1865
• Edward Sullivan
  Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet PC , was an Irish lawyer, and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1865-1870 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He was also Solicitor General for Ireland, 1865-1866, Attorney General for Ireland, 1868, Master of the...
  
  : 1865 - June 1866
• Michael Morris
  Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin
  Michael Morris, 1st Baron Killanin PC, QC , known as Sir Michael Morris, Bt, from 1885 to 1889 and as The Lord Morris between 1889 and 1900, was an Irish lawyer and judge...
  
  : 3 August 1866 - 1 November 1866
• Hedges Eyre Chatterton
  Hedges Eyre Chatterton
  Hedges Eyre Chatterton was an Irish Conservative Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently Vice-Chancellor of Ireland.- Biography :...
  
  : 8 November 1866 - 1867
• Robert Warren: 1867 - 1867
• Michael Harrison
  Michael Harrison (Solicitor-General)
  Michael Harrison was an Irish lawyer. He was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1867.-References:...
  
  : 1867 - 1868
• John Thomas Ball
  John Thomas Ball
  John Thomas Ball QC was an Irish barrister and politician in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....
  
  : 1868 - 1868
• Henry Ormsby
  Henry Ormsby
  Henry Ormsby PC, QC was an Irish lawyer and judge.Ormsby was born at Powerscourt, County Wicklow, the fourth son of the Reverend Henry Ormsby and his wife Margaret Sandys. He was educated at the University of Dublin, called to the Bar in 1835 and appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1858...
  
  : 1868 - 1868
• Charles Robert Barry
  Charles Robert Barry
  Charles Robert Barry QC, PC was an Irish lawyer who rose to become a Lord Justice of Appeal for Ireland.-Legal and judicial career:Barry was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1848 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1859...
  
  : 12 December 1868 - 26 January 1870
• Richard Dowse
  Richard Dowse
  Richard Dowse PC was an Irish policitian and barrister. He was elected as Member of Parliament for Londonderry City |Londonderry at the 1868 general election. He was appointed a Baron of the Court of the Exchequer...
  
  : 14 February 1870 - 13 January 1872
• Christopher Palles
  Christopher Palles
  Christopher Palles PC, QC , was an Irish barrister and judge.-Biography:Palles was born on Christmas Day at Mount Palles, near Mountnugent, in south County Cavan, Ireland. He was the third son of Andrew C. Palles, a solicitor, and his wife Eleanor...
  
  : 6 February 1872 - 5 November 1872
• Hugh Law
  Hugh Law
  Hugh Law PC , QC was an Irish lawyer, politician and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.Law was educated at Trinity College, Dublin where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1839. He became a barrister in 1840 and a Queen's Counsel in 1860...
  
  : 18 November 1872 - February 1874
• Henry Ormsby
  Henry Ormsby
  Henry Ormsby PC, QC was an Irish lawyer and judge.Ormsby was born at Powerscourt, County Wicklow, the fourth son of the Reverend Henry Ormsby and his wife Margaret Sandys. He was educated at the University of Dublin, called to the Bar in 1835 and appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1858...
  
  : 12 March 1874 - 21 January 1875
• Hon. David Plunket: 29 January 1875 - 1877
• Gerald FitzGibbon: 3 March 1877 - 1878
• Hugh Holmes
  Hugh Holmes
  Hugh Holmes QC was an Irish Conservative Party then after 1886 a Unionist Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge.-Background and education:...
  
  : 14 December 1878 - April 1880
• William Moore Johnson: 24 May 1880 - 17 November 1881
• Andrew Marshall Porter: 18 November 1881 - 3 January 1883
• John Naish
  John Naish
  John Naish PC, QC was an Irish lawyerEducated at Dublin University, Naish was called to the Irish Bar in 1865, becoming a QC in 1880. He was Solicitor-General for Ireland from January 1883 and Attorney-General for Ireland from December 1883...
  
  : 9 January 1883 - 19 December 1883
• Samuel Walker: 19 December 1883 - 1885
• The MacDermot
  Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot
  Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin PC, JP, DL, QC , was an Irish lawyer.-Background:MacDermot was the eldest son of Charles Joseph MacDermot by his wife Arabella Mary, only child of Hyacinth O'Rorke, representative of the House of O'Rorke of Breffny...
  
  : 1885 - June 1885
• John Monroe: 3 July 1885 - November 1885
• John George Gibson
  John George Gibson
  John George Gibson PC, QC , was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Gibson was the youngest son of William Gibson of Merrion Square, Dublin, and Rockforest, County Tipperary. Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, was his elder brother...
  
  : 1885 - January 1886
• The MacDermot
  Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot
  Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin PC, JP, DL, QC , was an Irish lawyer.-Background:MacDermot was the eldest son of Charles Joseph MacDermot by his wife Arabella Mary, only child of Hyacinth O'Rorke, representative of the House of O'Rorke of Breffny...
  
  : February 1886 - July 1886
• John George Gibson
  John George Gibson
  John George Gibson PC, QC , was an Irish lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:Gibson was the youngest son of William Gibson of Merrion Square, Dublin, and Rockforest, County Tipperary. Edward Gibson, 1st Baron Ashbourne, was his elder brother...
  
  : August 1886 - 1887
• Peter O'Brien
  Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien
  Peter O'Brien, 1st Baron O'Brien, PC, QC , known as Sir Peter O'Brien, Bt, between 1891 and 1900, was an Irish lawyer and judge...
  
  : 1887 - 1888
• Dodgson Hamilton Madden
  Dodgson Hamilton Madden
  Dodgson Hamilton Madden was an Irish Unionist Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party. He was the only son of the Reverend Hugh Hamilton Madden of Templemore, County Tipperary...
  
  : 1888 - 1890
• John Atkinson
  John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson
  John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson was an Irish politician and British judge. He was born at Drogheda, County Louth, the eldest son of Edward Atkinson, a physician, of Glenwilliam Castle, County Limerick and Skea House, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and his wife Rosetta. He died at 39 Hyde Park Gate,...
  
  : 1890 - 1892
• Edward Carson: June 1892 - August 1892
• Charles Hare Hemphill
  Charles Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill
  Charles Hare Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill, PC QC , was an Irish politician and barrister.Born in County Tyrone, Ireland, Hemphill was the son of son of John Hemphill. He was made a Queen's Counsel shortly before being appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1892, a post he held until 1895...
  
  : August 1892 - 1895
• William Kenny
  William Kenny (Irish politician)
  William Kenny PC QC , was an Irish judge and Liberal Unionist politician.He was born in Dublin, the only son of Edward Kenny, solicitor, of Kilrush, County Clare, and his wife, Catherine . Before he was called to the bar in 1868, he had graduated with a B.A...
  
  : 28 August 1895 - 1898
• Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton
  Dunbar Plunket Barton
  Sir Dunbar Plunket Barton, 1st Baronet PC was an Irish politician, author and judge.Barton was descended from Chief Justice Charles Kendal Bushe; and from the co-founder of the celebrated wine merchants Barton and Guestier. His mother was the third daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket...
  
  : 1898 - 1900

20th century

• George Wright
  George Wright (lawyer)
  George Wright was an Irish lawyer and judge.Wright was a native of Clonakilty, County Cork, where his father and brothers practiced as solicitors; he married Mary Barrington in 1881. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1900 to 1903 in the Unionist government headed by Lord Salisbury...
  
  : 30 January 1900 - 1903
• James Henry Musson Campbell
  James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy
  James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy PC was an Irish lawyer, politician in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State...
  
  : 8 July 1903 - 1905
• Redmond John Barry
  Redmond John Barry
  Redmond John Barry was an Irish lawyer.Barry was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in the Liberal government of 1905, and on 6 March 1907 he was elected Member of Parliament for North Tyrone...
  
  : 20 December 1905 - 2 December 1909
• Charles Andrew O'Connor
  Charles Andrew O'Connor
  Charles Andrew O'Connor PC was an Irish judge, who served as the last Master of the Rolls in Ireland.-Background and education:...
  
  : 2 December 1909 - 26 September 1911
• Ignatius O'Brien
  Ignatius O'Brien, 1st Baron Shandon
  Ignatius John O'Brien, 1st Baron Shandon PC, QC , known as Sir Ignatius O'Brien, Bt, between 1916 and 1918, was an Irish lawyer and politician. He served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland between 1913 and 1918....
  
  : 19 October 1911 - 24 June 1912
• Thomas Molony
  Thomas Molony
  Sir Thomas Molony, 1st Baronet PC, QC was the last Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. He was also the only Judge to hold the position of Lord Chief Justice of Southern Ireland although he did not hold that position under that title....
  
  : 24 June 1912 - 10 April 1913
• John Francis Moriarty: 25 April 1913 - 20 June 1913
• Jonathan Pim
  Jonathan Pim (1858-1949)
  Jonathan Pim PC , was an Irish lawyer and Liberal politician.Pim served in the Liberal administration of H. H. Asquith as Solicitor-General for Ireland from 1913 to 1914...
  
  : 20 June 1913 - 1 July 1914
• James O'Connor: 1 July 1914 - 8 January 1917
• James Chambers: 19 March 1917 - 1917
• Arthur Warren Samuels
  Arthur Warren Samuels
  Arthur Warren Samuels was an Irish Unionist Alliance Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom Parliament and subsequently a Judge. The Irish Unionists were the Irish wing of the Conservative Party....
  
  : 12 September 1917 - 7 April 1918
• John Blake Powell
  John Blake Powell
  John Blake Powell, PC , KC was an Irish solicitor, barrister and judge.Originally qualifying as a solicitor, he was called to the Bar in 1894. From 1904 to 1914 he was Senior Crown Prosecutor for County Leitrim and from 1914 to 1918 held the same position in County Sligo. He took silk in 1905 and...
  
  : 7 April 1918 - 1918
• Denis Stanislaus Henry: 27 November 1918 - 6 July 1919
• Daniel Martin Wilson
  Daniel Martin Wilson
  The Hon. Daniel Martin Wilson BA KC was an Irish politician and judge.He was born in Limerick, the son of Rev. David Wilson, and was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at Trinity College, Dublin....
  
  : 6 July 1919 - June 1921
• Thomas Watters Brown
  Thomas Watters Brown
  Thomas Watters Brown PC was an Irish lawyer and politician. He was elected Member of Parliament for North Down in 1918 and was appointed Solicitor-General for Ireland in June 1921. On 5 August of the same year he was promoted to Attorney-General for Ireland. He was the last holder of both offices...
  
  : 12 June 1921 - 5 August 1921
• office vacant thereafter.

Principal Solicitors for Ireland, 1537-1574

• Walter Cowley: 7 September 1537 - 1546
• John Bathe
  John Bathe (politician)
  John Bathe was a member of a famous legal dynasty and himself had a distinguished career under the Tudors, being Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas....
  
  : 7 February 1546 - 1550
• Richard Finglas: 17 October 1550 - 1554
• James Dowdall: 20 July 1554 - 1570?
• John Bathe
  John Bathe (politician)
  John Bathe was a member of a famous legal dynasty and himself had a distinguished career under the Tudors, being Solicitor General for Ireland and Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas....
  
  : 20 October 1570 - 1574