Bernard Charles Molloy
Bernard Charles Molloy (1842 – 26 June 1916)[1] was an Irish lawyer, soldier and politician. His brother was James Lynam Molloy, a successful Irish composer.
Life
Molloy was educated at
St. Edmund's College, Ware and at the University of France and the University of Bonn. He became a barrister in the Middle Temple in 1872. He was a Captain in the French Army and won a gold medal for his service during the Franco-Prussian war. He was also Private Chamberlain in the court of the Vatican.[1]
In 1874 he ran for election as member of parliament for the constituency of
Birr, which he held until the general election of 1900.[2]
He was a Middle Temple lawyer and penal reformer.
He resided at Drummond Lodge, near Milltownpass County Westmeath.[3]
Notes
- ^ a b ‘MOLLOY, Bernard Charles’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 6 July 2013
- ^ The New House of Commons: With Biographical Notices of its Members and of Nominated Candidates (George Edward Wright, 1885) page 382.
- ^ Mair, Robert Henry (1896). Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench. Dean & son.