William Murphy (1834–1872) was an Irish anti-Catholic activist and public lecturer.^[1] Murphy was born at Castletown Conyers, County Limerick, on 1 August 1834; he was killed at Whitehaven in 1872 by a group of angry Irish miners.^[1]

• Geoghegan, Patrick M. (2009). "Murphy, William". Dictionary of Irish Biography (online ed.). Cambridge University Press; Royal Irish Academy.

• Ashbee, Henry Spencer [Pisanus Fraxi] (1879). Centuria Librorum Absconditorum. London: privately printed. pp. 92, 212.

• Wohl, Anthony S. (4 April 2002). "The Murphy Riots". The Victorian Web.