As well as supporting charities and charitable causes, he played an active role in Dublin business life
William Lombard Murphy was one of the Irish doctors who signed up to serve during the first World War. Photograph: Getty ImagesWilliam Lombard Murphy was one of the Irish doctors who signed up to serve during the first World War. After the war, he led an eventful life that included heading up a national newspaper and helping the less well-off in Dublin city.
Weather conditions were extremely poor. In November 1915, Capt Noel Drury of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers noted in his diary that there were snow drifts up to his shoulders in some places. The men could hardly hold their rifles as their hands froze to the cold metal. Temperatures were so low that overcoats froze and when men tried to make them pliable to lie down, “they split like matchwood”.
As the eldest son, he assumed control of his father’s affairs. He was appointed chairman of Independent Newspapers and took on directorships of other companies such as the Dublin United Transport Company and the Great Southern Railway Company. After the war, it became the Belvedere Newsboys’ Club, where the young lads could go in the evenings and enjoy a warm supervised space and relax in the company of their pals.
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