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unusual facts about police magistrate



Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip

Following the official opening up of settlement in the district, Captain William Lonsdale was appointed as police magistrate, and held the first local court sittings within the District.

Tinkebell

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


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1790 in poetry

He is succeeded as Poet Laureate of Great Britain by writer and police magistrate Henry James Pye (who has just retired as a Member of Parliament) following William Hayley's refusal of the office.

Archibald Clunes Innes

He was later an assistant gold commissioner and magistrate at Nundle and later police magistrate at Newcastle, New South Wales.

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.

Ermington, New South Wales

The Police Magistrate to Parramatta, Major Edmund Lockyer, purchased the land in 1827 and built the stone mansion Ermington - named after the parish in Devon, England, where his second wife, Sarah Morris, was born.

John Wickham

John Clements Wickham, 19th-century British ship captain — later a police magistrate in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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.

Michael Joseph Barry

He recanted his early political views late in life and became a police magistrate in Dublin.

Mulgoa, New South Wales

Robert Dulhunty (1803–1853), landowner, police magistrate, alderman and founder of the Dubbo district in central-western New South Wales; and

Myall Creek massacre

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

SS Ellengowan

He was accompanied by Luigi M D'Albertis, an Italian naturalist and the police magistrate in Somerset, Lieutenant Cherster.

Territory of Papua

In 1883 Sir Thomas McIlwraith, the Premier of Queensland, ordered Henry Chester (1832–1914), the Police Magistrate on Thursday Island to proceed to Port Moresby and annex New Guinea and adjacent islands in the name of the British government.

Thomas Saunders

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

William Augustine Duncan

In 1846, he was appointed by Sir George Gipps sub-collector of customs at Moreton Bay, and soon after settling at Brisbane he was placed on the commission of the peace, made water police magistrate, guardian of minors, and local immigration commissioner.