Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet PC (10 July 1822 – 13 April 1885), 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 Rolls in Ireland, 1870. Created a baronet, 29 December 1881, from 1883 to 1885 he was Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Edward Sullivan was born at Mallow, County Cork, on 10 July 1822. He was the eldest son of Edward Sullivan by his wife Anne Surflen, née Lynch. His father was a prosperous local merchant, and a friend of the poet Thomas Moore. Sullivan went to school at Midleton and Portora Royal School, and in 1841 he entered Trinity College, Dublin. He obtained first classical scholarship in 1843, and graduated B.A. in 1845. He was also elected auditor of the College Historical Society in 1845, in succession to William Connor Magee (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Archbishop of York), and gained the gold medal for oratory.