List of judges of the Vice Admiralty Court (New South Wales)
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Judges who have served on the Vice Admiralty Court in New South Wales between 1787 and 1911 include :
- Judges
- Deputy judges
- Surrogate judges.[1]
Position | Name | Appointment commenced |
Appointment ended |
Term in office | Comments | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Judge Commissary | Robert Ross | 18 April 1787 | ||||
Francis Grose | ||||||
Joseph Foveaux | 7 August 1798 | 7 August 1798 | Appointment refused | |||
Henry Waterhouse | 15 August 1798 | |||||
William Paterson | 20 March 1799 | |||||
George Johnston | 20 November 1804 | |||||
Edward Abbott | 19 February 1808 | |||||
Ellis Bent | 10 August 1811 | 10 November 1815 | 4 years, 92 days | |||
John Wylde | 26 July 1816 | |||||
Sir Francis Forbes | 31 October 1825 | 1 July 1837 | 11 years, 243 days | Chief Justice of New South Wales (1823−1837) | [2] | |
John Kinchela | 7 May 1840 | |||||
Sir James Dowling | 18 August 1841 | 27 September 1844 | 3 years, 40 days | Chief Justice of New South Wales (1837−1844) | [3] | |
Sir Alfred Stephen [a] | 7 October 1844 | 5 November 1873 | 29 years, 29 days | Chief Justice of New South Wales (1844−1873) | [5] | |
Sir James Martin | 19 November 1873 | 4 November 1886 | 12 years, 350 days | Chief Justice of New South Wales (1873−1886) | [6] | |
Sir Frederick Darley | 29 November 1886 | 4 January 1910 | 23 years, 36 days | Chief Justice of New South Wales (1886-1910) | ||
Sir William Cullen | 28 January 1910 | 1 July 1911 | 1 year, 154 days | Chief Justice of New South Wales (1910-1925) | ||
Deputy Commissary | Ellis Bent | 25 June 1810 | ||||
John Kinchela | September 1837 | November 1840 | 3 years, 32–90 days | Acting judge of the Supreme Court (1836−1837) | ||
Samuel Milford | 1 August 1844 | 26 May 1865 | 20 years, 298 days | Master in Equity (Supreme Court) (1843−1855) | [7][8] | |
Alfred Cheeke | 10 September 1869 | Judge of the Supreme Court (1865−1876) | [9] | |||
Peter Faucett | 15 September 1879 | 10 years, 5 days | Judge of the Supreme Court (1865−1888) | [9][10] | ||
Sir William Windeyer | 15 September 1879 | Acting judge & judge of the Supreme Court (1879−1896) | [10] | |||
Sir William Owen | 24 September 1897 | Judge of the Supreme Court (1887−1908) | ||||
Philip Street | 29 July 1908 | Judge of the Supreme Court (1907−1934) | ||||
Surrogate Judge | William à Beckett | 15 September 1841 | Solicitor General (1841−1844) | |||
Samuel Milford | 3 March 1843 | Master in Equity (Supreme Court) (1843−1855) | ||||
William Carter | 22 February 1847 | Master in Equity (Supreme Court) (1841−1843) | ||||
Herman Milford | ||||||
Henry Stephen [a] | 21 December 1857 | [11] | ||||
William Cary | 11 January 1858 | |||||
William Hallam Wilkinson | 6 August 1864 | Deputy Judge District Court (1868–1870, 1874) | ||||
Joseph Innes | 1872 | Solicitor General (1872−1873) |
Notes
- ^ a b The Stephen family is a prominent legal dynasty in Australia.[4] Sir Alfred Stephen was the father of (Matthew) Henry Stephen.
References
- ^ "Vice Admiralty Court of NSW, 1787-1911". www.records.nsw.gov.au. 20 January 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
- ^ "Government Notice". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. 16 August 1826. p. 1. Retrieved 20 September 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Vice-Admiralty Court". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 67. 20 August 1841. p. 1102. Retrieved 20 September 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ Fox, K (17 February 2015). "Australian Legal Dynasties: The Stephens and the Streets". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- ^ "Sir Alfred Stephen KCMG, CB, GCMG". NSW State Archives & Records.
- ^ "Sir James Martin". NSW State Archives & Records.
- ^ "Samuel Frederick Milford". NSW State Archives & Records.
- ^ "Approval of appointment of Samuel Frederick Milford as Deputy Commissary". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 97. 25 October 1844. p. 1316. Retrieved 20 September 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ a b "Vice-Admiralty Court of New South Wales". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 192. 10 September 1869. p. 2277. Retrieved 20 September 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ a b "Vice-Admiralty court of New South Wales". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 338. 19 September 1879. p. 4141. Retrieved 20 September 2022 – via Trove.
- ^ "Sir Matthew Henry Stephen". NSW State Archives & Records.
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