Richard Nutley

Richard Nutley (1670–1729) was an English-born barrister, politician and judge assigned to official duty in early eighteenth-century Ireland.

Nutley is known to have been acting as his financial agent in 1703, endeavouring to raise money on the family estates (which were heavily encumbered with mortgages), and afterwards became his steward.

[7] Official business in Dublin reached a deadlock: much of the blame for the controversy was placed on the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Sir Constantine Phipps.

In 1713 it was rumoured, wrongly, that the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Duke of Shrewsbury, would make the dismissal of both Phipps and Nutley a condition of his taking up office.

[9] Nutley managed to retain office until August 1714, when on the death of Queen Anne, the new King George I removed her Irish judges en bloc.

It was anticipated, wrongly, that he would follow Ormonde into exile, but it seems that his political beliefs were not sufficiently strong for him to give up what was still, despite his loss of office, a comfortable life in Dublin.