Daniel Murphy

Daniel Murphy was a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hobart. Murphy was born in Belmont, County Cork, Ireland, the son of Michael Murphy and his wife Mary, née McSweeney. Murphy was educated at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, where he was ordained priest in 1838, and at once volunteered for the foreign missions in India, proceeding with Bishop Carew to Madras in 1845. Subsequently he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop Fennelly, successor to Archbishop Carew, translated to Calcutta, and as consecrated by the Most Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Cork, in October 1846, in the parish church of Kinsale, of which his brother was parish priest and vicar foraine. In 1848 Dr. Murphy was appointed bishop to the newly erected Vicariate Apostolic of Hyderabad, Deccan, India. During the Mutiny in 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.