Sir Edward Sullivan, 1st Baronet, PC (Ire) (10 July 1822 – 13 April 1885) was an Irish lawyer, and a Liberal Member of Parliament for Mallow, 1865–1870 in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
His father was a prosperous local wine merchant, and a friend of the poet Thomas Moore.
Sullivan was educated at Midleton and Portora Royal School, and in 1841 he entered Trinity College Dublin.
[1] He was also elected auditor of the College Historical Society in 1845, in succession to William Connor Magee (afterwards Bishop of Peterborough and Archbishop of York), and gained the gold medal for oratory.
[4] In December 1868, on the return of the Liberal Party to power, Sullivan became Attorney-General for Ireland in William Gladstone's first administration.
[5] Bessie's sister Margaret married another prominent politician from Cork, John Francis Maguire.