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Edward Sullivan Murphy PC(NI) KC (3 February 1880 – 3 December 1945) was an Irish barrister, judge and politician.
He was brother-in-law to Northern Ireland's first Lord Chief Justice, Sir Denis Henry, Bt.
(they both married daughters of Lord Justice Hugh Holmes).He was educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, and Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Classics.
He was called to the Irish Bar in 1903 and the English Bar in 1921.He was elected to the Northern Ireland Senate as an Ulster Unionist Party member on 22 March 1929, but resigned on 11 April of the same year in order to contest the City of Londonderry seat at the 1929 Northern Ireland general election.
He thus had the shortest term of any Senator in Northern Ireland.Murphy won the seat, and held it at subsequent elections.
He served as Attorney General for Northern Ireland from 1937–1939, and resigned from the office and from Parliament upon appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1939, as which he served until his death.

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