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 and no public records have been located. His name, as Master Holwell Walsh, appears in the subscription list for Edward Walsh's (q.v.) Bagatelles of 1793 and perhaps the two were related. 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. On 30 Apr. 1813 he married Louisa, daughter of Sir James Bond of Dublin and widow of J. R. Miller of Longbridge, Warwickshire; they had several children including a daughter Ann. In the 1830s he is recorded in the Dublin directories as a barrister with premises at 20 Kildare Street. Very little else is known for certain. 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 and prison records indicate that his legal career was alternately successful and troubled; he seems to have been imprisoned for debt in Kilmainham, Dublin, in 1834 and again in 1842. 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; ancestry.co.uk 24 Oct. 2025) SR