Edward Sullivan Murphy PC(NI) KC (3 February 1880 – 3 December 1945) was an Irish barrister, judge and politician.
He was brother-in-law to the first Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Sir Denis Henry, Bt.
[1] He was the fourth son of James Murphy (1823-1901), judge of the High Court of Justice in Ireland, and Mary Keogh, daughter of William Keogh, judge of the Court of Common Pleas (Ireland) and Kate Rooney.
He was educated at Charterhouse School, Surrey, and Trinity College, Dublin where he studied Classics.
[3] He was elected to the Northern Ireland Senate as an Ulster Unionist Party member on 22 March 1929, but resigned on 11 April of the same year in order to contest the City of Londonderry seat at the 1929 Northern Ireland general election.