page_title: Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland
section_title: List of Chief Justices of the Common Pleas for Ireland
hierarchical_section_title: Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland / List of Chief Justices of the Common Pleas for Ireland
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugh Carleton, 1st Viscount Carleton (1739-1826)
context_page_description: The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland was the presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, which was known in its early years as the Court of Common Bench, or simply as "the Bench". It was one of the senior courts of common law in Ireland, and was a mirror of the Court of Common Pleas in England. The Court of Common Pleas was one of the "four courts" which sat in the building in Dublin which is still known as the Four Courts, apart from a brief period in the fourteenth century when it relocated to Carlow.
  According to Elrington Ball the court was fully operational by 1276. It was staffed by the Chief Justice, of whom Robert Bagod was the first, and two or three associate justices. The Court functioned until the passing of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1877, when it was merged into the new High Court of Justice in Ireland. The last Chief Justice of the Common Pleas for Ireland, Sir Michael Morris, continued to hold the title until 1887, when he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
context_section_description: 1274 Robert Bagod
  1298 Simon de Ludgate
  1302 Richard de Exeter
  1308 William de Devenys
  1308 Richard de Exeter
  1323 Richard de Willoughby
  1325 Henry de Hambury
  1327 Nicholas Fastolf
  1329 William de Rodyard
  1331 Robert de Scardeburgh
  1335 Simon Fitz-Richard
  1338 John de Rees
  1338 Simon Fitz-Richard, second term
  1341 John Gernoun
  1344 Thomas de Dent
  1358 Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston
  1378 Henry Mitchell
  1380 Henry Bray
  1383 William de Langham
  1385 John de Shriggeley
  1385 Edmund de Clay
  1386 John Tirel
  1396 John Giffard
  1396 John Fitzadam
  1419 William Tynbegh
  1420 John Blakeney
  1424 William Tynbegh, second term
  1424 John Blakeney, second term
  1428 Sir James Alleyn
  1430 John Blakeney, third term
  1438 Robert Dowdall
  1482 Thomas Plunket
  1494 John Topcliffe
  1496 Thomas Bowring
  1498 Thomas Plunket, second term
  1514 Richard Delahide
  1534 Thomas Luttrell
  1554 John Bathe
  1559 Robert Dillon (died 1580)
  1580 Nicholas Nugent
  1581 Robert Dillon died 1597, first term
  1593 William Weston
  1594 Robert Dillon died 1597, second term
  1597 Nicholas Walsh
  1612 Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield
  1634 Gerard Lowther
  1660 James Donnellan
  1665 Sir Edward Smith (or Smythe)
  1670 Robert Booth
  1679 John Keating
  1691 Richard Pyne
  1695 John Hely
  1701 Richard Cox
  1703 Sir Robert Doyne
  1714 John Forster
  1720 Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet
  1724 Thomas Wyndham, 1st Baron Wyndham
  1727 William Whitshed (died just after taking up office)
  1727 James Reynolds
  1740 Henry Singleton
  1753 Sir William Yorke, 1st Baronet
  1761 Richard Aston
  1765 Richard Clayton
  1770 Marcus Paterson
  1787 Hugh Carleton, 1st Viscount Carleton
  1800 John Toler, 1st Earl of Norbury
  1827 William Plunket, 1st Baron Plunket
  1830 John Doherty
  1850 James Henry Monahan
  1876 Michael Morris
caption: Chief Justice Carleton
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