Recorder of Cork

The recorder of Cork was a

The office of Recorder of Cork was abolished, along with all other recorderships in the Irish Free State, in 1924.^[5]

Notable recorders of Cork have included:

• John Meade, Meagh or Myarh (living 1574), the first known Recorder, and later Second Justice of the Provincial Court of Munster. He also sat in the
  Meade Baronets of Ballintubber and the Earl of Clanwilliam
  .
• James I of England in 1603, and as a result, he was tried for treason, but acquitted. He later fled from Ireland, presumably to avoid further charges of treason being brought against him, and died in exile in Italy.^[6]
• Henry Bathurst (1623-1676), one of the sixteen sons of George Bathurst and Elizabeth Villiers of Theddingworth, Leicestershire, and brother of the politician Sir Benjamin Bathurst, and of Dr Ralph Bathurst, Dean of Wells. He was also Recorder of Kinsale^[7]
• William Worth (c.1646–1721), who was a member of a leading clerical family – his father was Edward Worth, Bishop of Killaloe, and his brother John was Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He was Recorder of Kinsale 1676-1681, Recorder of Cork 1678–81 and later one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) (1681-1689).
• Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton (c.1656–1728), Recorder 1690–1695, one of the leading Irish judges and statesmen of his time, whose numerous public offices included Speaker of the Irish House of Commons and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was notoriously bad-tempered.^[8]
• Hugh Dickson MP (died 1738) who sat in the Irish House of Commons as the member for Cork city 1725–35 and was Recorder 1728–1738 and Controller of Customs.^[9] He married Anne Hoare, sister of Edward Hoare; their father had founded Hoare's Bank.^[10]
• Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas
  .
• John Bennett (c. 1720-1792), Recorder c. 1783-7, a prominent local politician, member of the Irish House of Commons, and later justice of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland).^[11]
• Robert Bennett, Recorder 1841-1847, (mentioned as Deputy Recorder in 1840), who kept a valuable notebook of the cases he heard between 1841 and 1843.^[12] He was the father of the noted surgeon Edward Hallaran Bennett, who identified Bennett's fracture.
• William Waggett (1771-1840), Recorder 1808–1841: he was one of the most eminent Irish
  barristers of his age, but was also noted for eccentricity.^[3] He was the son of Christopher Waggett (died 1796) of Kitsborough House.^[13]
• Matthew Bourke (1849–1926), the last Recorder of Cork (1908–1924), who was described with great affection by his friend Maurice Healy in his memoir The Old Munster Circuit.^[14]

• John Meagh, or Meade (c.1570-74)
• William Meade
  (removed from office 1603)
• Benjamin Crofts (c.1665–1668)
• Henry Bathurst (died 1676), former Attorney General for Munster; also Recorder of Kinsale
• William Worth (1678–1681)^[15]
• Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton (1690–1695)
• Hugh Dickson (appointed December 1728, and still in office 1734); MP for Cork city 1727–35, Collector of Customs for the Port of Cork
• Joseph Bennett (1738- 1767)
• Hugh Carleton, 1st Viscount Carleton (1769–1779)
• John Bennett (c.1783–1787)
• William Waggett (1808–1840)
• Robert Bennett (1841–1847)
• Thomas Forsyth, or Forsayth (1847–1879)
• James Hamilton (1880–1892)
• Sir John Chute Neligan (1892–1908)
• Matthew Bourke (1908–1924)

• Robert Wilmot (1772-1815), brother of the writers Katherine Wilmot and Martha Wilmot, was Deputy Recorder until his death in 1815^[16]
• Robert Bennett, Recorder 1841-1847, was described as Deputy Recorder in 1840.^[17]