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Rt Hon Sir William Moore Johnson, 1st Baronet KC (1828 – 9 December 1918)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Historical list of MPs: M )〕 was an Irish barrister and judge: he was held in great affection by the Bar, despite a reputation for stupidity which led to his nickname "Wooden-headed Billy". He was the son of Rev. William Johnson, chancellor of the Diocese of Cloyne, and Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. William Hamilton, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He was educated at Dublin University, entered Lincoln's Inn in 1849, and was called to the Irish Bar four years later. In 1872, he became a Queen's Counsel. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Mallow in County Cork in 1880, and held the seat until 1883.〔 He also served as Solicitor General for Ireland from 1880 to 1881.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baronets: J )〕 In 1881, he was sworn a member of the Privy Council of Ireland〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Privy councillors )〕 and made Attorney General for Ireland.〔 He remained Attorney General until 1883, when he was appointed a Justice of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland. He married Susan, daughter of Richard Bayly of Green Park, Kilmallock the following year.〔 According to Maurice Healy, Johnson did not wish to become a judge (largely because Irish judges then were rather poorly paid) but when Attorney General he had caused a furore, in the course of prosecuting Maurice's uncle Timothy Michael Healy, by publicly shaking his hand, and it was felt better that he cease to be a Law Officer. As a judge he was notorious for his inability to get the facts of a case right, leading to the nickname "Wooden-headed Billy".〔Sullivan, A.M. ''Old Ireland'' Butterworths 1927〕 Maurice Healy however adds that he was a fairly good lawyer and the kindest-hearted of men; in an era when many Irish judges, such as Hugh Holmes, Walter Boyd and William Drennan Andrews were noted for the severity of their sentences, Johnson was noted for clemency.〔Healy, Maurice ''The Old Munster Circuit'' Michael Joseph Ltd. London 1939〕 He was created a Baronet (of Dublin) in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 24 November 1909 after his retirement from the court that year. The title became extinct on his death.〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Moore Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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