George Higinbotham
| George Higinbotham | |
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| Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria | |
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In office 24 September 1886 – 31 December 1892 |
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| Preceded by | William Stawell |
| Succeeded by | John Madden |
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19 April 1826 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 31 December 1892 (aged 66) South Yarra, Melbourne |
| Resting place | Brighton, Victoria |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
George Higinbotham (19 April 1826 – 31 December 1892) was a politician and was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian colony (and later, State) of Victoria.
George Higinbotham was the sixth son (and youngest of eight) of Henry Higinbotham, a merchant at Dublin, and Sarah Wilson, daughter of Joseph Wilson, a man of Scottish ancestry who had gone to America and became an American citizen after the War of Independence and returned to Dublin as American consul. George Higinbotham was educated at the Royal School Dungannon, and having gained a Queen's scholarship of £50 a year, entered at Trinity College, Dublin.
Higinbotham qualified for the degree of B.A. in 1849 and M.A. in 1853, after a good but undistinguished course, and proceeded to London where he soon became a parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle. Higinbotham entered himself as a student at Lincoln's Inn on 20 April 1848, and on 6 June 1853 was called to the bar.
On 1 December 1853 Higinbotham left Liverpool for Australia on the Briseis and arrived at Melbourne on 10 March 1854, where he contributed to the Melbourne Herald and practised at the bar with much success. In 1857 he became editor of the Melbourne Argus, but resigned in 1859 and returned to the bar. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in May 1861 for Brighton as an independent Liberal, was rejected at the general election of July the same year, but was returned nine months later.
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