Edward Loughlin O'Malley
Sir Edward Loughlin O'Malley was a Briitsh lawyer and Judge. He served as Attorney General and Chief Justice of a number of British colonies in the late 19th and early 20th Century.
His last position before retirement was as Chief Justice of the British Supreme Consular Court in the Ottoman Empire.
Early Life
O'Malley was born in 1842. He was the son Peter Frederick O'Malley QC.
O'Malley was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1866 and practiced on the Norfolk and South Eastern Circuits.
He ran unsuccessfully for the British Parliament on a number of occasions.
He married, in 1869, Emma Winifred Hardcastle, daughter of Mr J.A. Hardcastle M.P.
Legal Appointments
O'Malley was appointed Attorney General of Jamaica in 1876.[1]
Then from 1879 to 1889 he was Attorney General of Hong Kong.
In 1889 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Straits Settlements.[2] He was knighted in 1891.[3]
He then served as Chief Justice of British Guiana from 1895 until 1898 when he was appointed Chief Judge of HBM Consular Court in the Ottoman Empire.[4]
Retirement
O'Malley retired in 1903. In 1909, he was appointed a Royal Commissioner to enquire into the condition and resources of Mauritius.[5]
He died at the age of 90 in August 1932. [6]