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2 unusual facts about Magistrate


Oswald Leslie De Kretser III

In 1940 he became a Crown Counsel and went on to joinin the judicial service as an acting Magistrate in Chilaw in 1943.

Tinkebell

On 8 September 2009 and 6 May 2010, she was tried for the case in front of the police magistrate in Amsterdam.


Abar Byomkesh

At Dooars, Byomkesh makes his acquaintance with several Bengali inhabitants from the local community like Dr. Ashwini Ghatak (Sujan Mukherjee), Prof. Adinath Shome (Pijush Ganguly), Mahidhar Chaudhury (Biswajit Chakrabarty), photographer Nakuleshwar (Arindol Bagchi), police officer Purander Pandey (Kunal Padhy), deputy magistrate Umanath Ghosh (Chandan Sen) and banker Amaresh Raha (Kaushik Sen).

Adolf Spiess

Around this time, on a visit to his family in Sprendlingen, one evening a friendly magistrate informed his father that if Adolf was found in the house on the following morning he would be subject to arrest.

Alastair Forbes

Forbes’ first overseas posting was to Dominica in the British West Indies in 1936 as a magistrate and government officer, where much of his time was spent compiling an index of the island's laws (his assistant for many years was the barrister (later Dame) Eugenia Charles, who subsequently co-founded the centrist Dominica Freedom Party and in 1980 became the Caribbean's first female prime minister).

Antonino Giuffrè

Giuffrè became part of the "directorate" that was established by Bernardo Provenzano, according to Antonio Ingroia, a leading anti-Mafia magistrate in Sicily.

Aurangabad, Bihar

From parent District Gaya Sri K.A.H.Subramanyam was the first District Magistrate and Sri Surjit Kumar Saha was the then Sub-Divisional officer.

Avondale, Harare

The first official marriage ceremony in Zimbabwe took place on Avondale farm in 1894 when the Count de la Panouse was married to Fanny Pearson (Countess Billie) by Lt Col. Marshall Hole, the Chief Magistrate of Salisbury.

Bergenline Avenue

Esther Salas, the first Hispanic woman to serve as a United States magistrate judge in the District of New Jersey, and the first Hispanic woman to be appointed a U.S. District Court judge in New Jersey.

Breakwater, Victoria

The name Breakwater originated from a rock ford constructed across the Barwon River by Geelong's first Police magistrate, Captain Foster Fyans, in 1837.

Christopher Fulwood

His strict impartiality as a magistrate is commemorated by the ‘apostle of the Peak,’ William Bagshaw.

Company of the Blessed Sacrament

Finally, it was instrumental in bringing about the ordinance establishing the General Hospital of Paris where Christophe du Plessis, the magistrate, and St. Vincent de Paul organized medical care for the indigent.

Cui Zhi

His father Cui Yingfu (崔嬰甫) served as the magistrate of Lujiang County (廬江, in modern Chaohu, Anhui) and was a younger brother to the official Cui Youfu, who would eventually serve as a chancellor during the early years of the reign of Emperor Daizong's son Emperor Dezong.

Daniel Hopkin

His son Sir David Hopkin (1922–1997) was also a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate for over 20 years, but is probably best known as the Chairman and later President of the British Boxing Board of Control.

Deberah Kula

Prior to her legislative career, Kula served as Magisterial District Judge in North Union Township, Pennsylvania.

Delangle

Claude Alphonse Delangle (6 April 1797 – 25 December 1869), French magistrate and politician

Ernest Pérochon

He was also a magistrate in Niort and Poitiers and won numerous French and Belgian military decorations.

Flatlands, Brooklyn

Steven Van Voorhees (1600-1684), magistrate, first Voorhees in America

Fox Crane

Fox, as he was eventually nicknamed, was descended from numerous wealthy and prominent families that immigrated to North America before the American Revolutionary War — his paternal grandfather is a descendant of William Ephraim Crane, a magistrate who ordered Tabitha Lenox's execution in 1693, thus sparking the witch's vendetta against the Crane family, and his maternal grandmother was a descendant of Paul Revere.

Francisco Camps

In March 2009, Camps was one of several PP figures accused by magistrate Baltasar Garzón of taking bribes.

Gavvy Cravath

Cravath returned to California, where he went into real estate and was elected magistrate judge (Justice of the Peace) in September 1927 in Laguna Beach, California; he died there at age 82.

George Gall Sim

He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1900 and went out to India at the end of 1901, where he was posted to the United Provinces, serving as an Assistant Magistrate and Collector.

George She

Some of his most remarkable jobs included barrister-at-law, magistrate, headmaster of Diocesan Boys' School (1955–1961), and honorary canon of St. John's Cathedral.

Hsu Hsin-liang

He was expelled from Kuomintang but broke ranks in 1977 when he ran and won as an independent in the election for Magistrate of Taoyuan County.

James Thomason

He held numerous positions there, including magistrate-collector and settlement officer in Azamgarh (1832–37) and foreign secretary to the government of India (1842–43).

Janko Kamauf

Janko Kamauf was the last city magistrate of Gradec and the first mayor of Zagreb, Croatia.

Jefferson Stow

Jefferson Pickman Stow (4 September 1830 – 4 May 1908), was a newspaper editor and magistrate in South Australia.

Johann Hieronymus Schröter

Herschel's discovery of Uranus in 1781 inspired Schröter to pursue astronomy more seriously, and he resigned his post and became chief magistrate and district governor of Lilienthal.

Judicial Commission of New South Wales

The Chairmen of the Bench of Magistrates (now called Chief Magistrate), Murray Farquhar, was also to face charges.

Julia of Corsica

He had the tribunician power, which would have made him a high-level magistrate, perhaps even provincial governor.

La Grande Bouffe

There they find the old caretaker, Hector, who has innocently prepared everything for the great feast, and a Chinese visitor who is there to offer a job to the magistrate in faraway China, which Philippe politely rejects with the phrase "Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes", quoting Virgil.

Lake Innes Ruins, Port Macquarie, New South Wales

In 1853 he abandoned Lake Innes House and accepted employment as assistant gold commissioner and magistrate at Nundle and later police magistrate at Newcastle, where he died on 29 August 1857.

Lars Kristian Abrahamsen

A district stipendiary magistrate by profession, he served in Gunnar Knudsen's first and second Governments (1908–1910 and 1913–1920).

Margaret Hart Ferraro

Hart, Brawner, McCormick, and three other chorus girls were arraigned in West Side Court but were freed by Magistrate Guy Van Amringe, who presided in Commercial Frauds Court, on May 7, 1935.

Mario Amato

Mario Amato (24 November 1937, in Palermo – 23 June 1980, in Rome) was an Italian magistrate, assassinated in 1980 by NAR (Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari) members Gilberto Cavallini and Luigi Ciavardini.

Münchsmünster Abbey

In 1819 the city magistrate of Landshut bought archivolts and walls, which were integrated into construction of the cemetery portal, complete in 1820.

Myall Creek massacre

Supported by the Attorney General, John Plunkett, Gipps ordered Police Magistrate, Edward Denny Day at Muswellbrook, to investigate the massacre.

Nini Roll Anker

She was born in Molde, as the daughter of stipendiary magistrate and later member of parliament and minister Ferdinand Nicolai Roll.

Olaf Amundsen

A district stipendiary magistrate by profession, he was Minister of Justice in the second government of Otto Blehr.

Otterburn Tower

Originally founded by a cousin of William the Conqueror in 1086, it was later owned by the Clan Hall, before being rebuilt in 1830 by Thomas James, a magistrate, on the site and using some of the stones from the Otterburn Castle.

Paul J. Morochnik

Paul Morochnik gained national attention for his testimony in the judicial investigative committee investigation of his uncle, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan J. Baverman.

Paul Moon James

James was also a poet, and lawyer, who also served for a time as magistrate of Worcestershire and later as High Bailiff of Birmingham, England.

Peterborough Greyhound Stadium

Rex Perkins, son of Reg Perkins worked at the track from the age of 17 and was later a magistrate and Mayor of Peterborough 1987-1988.

Rameshwar Singh

He was appointed to the Indian Civil Service in 1878, serving as assistant magistrate successively at Darbhanga, Chhapra, and Bhagalpur.

Richard Waldron

Walderne was the local magistrate whose stern Puritan action in 1662 toward three persistent Quaker women proselytisers became the stuff of condemnatory poetry by Whittier.

Rise of Rome

Edward Gibbon noted that the Roman dictatorship was all the more difficult to baer due to the prior understanding and experience of political freedom - even under such late figures as Commodus, they were so famous for instance, a typical Roman magistrate or professional would be fully educated in all of the civics, ethics and morality that he saw violated all day every day around him, knowing himself to be in grave risk of his life if he raised this as an issue in public.

Roger Jaques

Jaques was a merchant and chief magistrate of York and purchased an estate at Elvington.

Samuel Martin

Samuel McDonald Martin (1810–1848), New Zealand land claimant, magistrate, journalist and writer

Slavery in Vietnam

The local chief planned to sell him back to the Vietnamese, but Wu was rescued by the Pingxiang magistrate and then was sent to Beijing to work as a eunuch in the palace.

Thomas Saunders

Thomas William Saunders (1814–1890), British metropolitan police magistrate

Thursday October Christian

Thursday October Christian II (1820–1911), his son, magistrate of Pitcairn Island


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