Author: Walsh, Holwell
Biography:
WALSH, Holwell (d 1844)
He was the elder son of Michael Walsh of Dublin; his mother’s name is not known. He matriculated at Trinity College Dublin in 1803 and graduated BA in 1806. He entered the Middle Temple and later worked as a barrister in Dublin. In 1813 he married Louisa, daughter of Sir J. Bond of Dublin and widow of J. R. Miller of Longbridge, Warwickshire; they had at least one child, a daughter. Very little else is known for certain about him although Edward Walsh (q.v.) was probably a relation; “Master Holwell Walsh” is listed as a subscriber to Bagatelles. Louisa Walsh died in 1835 after seven years of illness; at the time of her death the family was living in Roebuck, south Dublin. Newspaper records indicate that his legal career was alternately successful and troubled; in Oct. 1842 he was listed as an insolvent debtor. He died at home on Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, on 27 Dec. 1844. (Oxford University and City Herald 29 May 1813; Saunders’s Newsletter 8 May 1835; Warder and Dublin Weekly Mail 8 Oct. 1842; Newry Telegraph 2 Jan. 1845; Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple 3 [1949]; Catalogue of Graduates who have Proceeded to Degrees in the University of Dublin [1869]) SR