Daniel Murphy

Daniel Murphy (15 June 1815 – 29 December 1907) was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart, Tasmania.

Life and career Murphy was born in Belmont, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Michael Murphy and his wife Mary, née McSweeney. Subsequently, he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Fennelly, successor to Archbishop Carew, translated to Calcutta, and was consecrated by John Murphy, Bishop of Cork, in October 1846, in the parish church of Kinsale. In 1848, Daniel Murphy was appointed bishop to the newly erected Vicariate Apostolic of Hyderabad, Deccan, India. During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he manifested great prudence, and secured from the Nizam several stands of arms for the boys of the Catholic College, who were drilled in expectation of a mutiny arising in the State.

Murphy was also an astronomer, submitting a paper on solar phenomena and their effects to the Australasian Science Association Congress in Hobart in 1892. Murphy died in Low Head, Tasmania, Australia, on 29 December 1907 and was buried in Hobart.