Daniel Murphy (15 June 1815 – 29 December 1907) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Tasmania.
[2] Murphy was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he was ordained priest in 1838, and at once volunteered for the foreign missions in India, proceeding with Bishop Carew to Madras in 1845.
In 1848, Daniel Murphy was appointed bishop to the newly erected Vicariate Apostolic of Hyderabad, Deccan, India.
[3] In consequence of ill health, Pope Pius IX transferred him from India to Tasmania in 1865, appointing him Bishop of Hobart in succession to Robert Willson.
[5] Murphy was also an astronomer, submitting a paper on solar phenomena and their effects to the Australasian Science Association Congress in Hobart in 1892.