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William Foster Stawell

Sir
William Foster Stawell
KCMG
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William Foster Stawell
1st Attorney-General of Victoria, Australia
In office
1851–1857
Succeeded by Thomas Howard Fellows
2nd Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Victoria
In office
1857–1886
Preceded by William à Beckett
Succeeded by George Higinbotham
(Appointed) Member of the
Legislative Council of Victoria
In office
1851–1856
Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Victoria
In office
1855–1857
Serving with Archibald Michie and David Moore
Constituency Melbourne
Personal details
Born (1815-06-27)27 June 1815
Old Court, County Cork, Ireland
Died 12 March 1889(1889-03-12) (aged 73)
Naples, Italy
Nationality British
Spouse(s) Mary Frances Elizabeth Greene
Children Richard Rawdon Stawell (son)
Alma mater Trinity College, Dublin,
King's Inns, and
Lincoln's Inn
Occupation Lawyer and Barrister
Religion Anglican

Sir William Foster Stawell KCMG (27 June 1815 – 12 March 1889) was a British colonial statesman and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia. Stawell was the first Attorney-General of Victoria, serving from 1851 to 1856 as an appointed official sitting in the Victorian Legislative Council, and from 1856 until 1857, as an elected politician, representing Melbourne.

Stawell was born in Old Court, County Cork, Ireland the second son of ten children of Jonas Stawell, and his wife Anna, second daughter of the Right Reverend William Foster, bishop of Clogher. Stawell was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, studied law at the King’s Inns, Dublin, and at Lincoln’s Inn, and was called to the Irish bar in 1839. Stawell travelled in Europe with his friends Redmond Barry and James Moore. He practised law in Ireland until 1842 when he decided to emigrate to Australia.

Stawell was admitted to the Port Phillip District bar in 1843. He engaged extensively in pastoral pursuits, and had sheep stations at Natte Yallock, Victoria, on the banks of the Avoca River, and in the neighbourhood of Lake Wallace, near the South Australian border. When Charles Perry came to Australia as first bishop of Melbourne, Stawell helped him to form a constitution for the newly created diocese. His first cousins and fellow Anglo-Irish, the brothers William and Leopold de Salis also went to Australia in the 1840s.


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