Charles Cooper (judge)
Sir Charles Cooper | |
|---|---|
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| Chief Justice of South Australia[a] | |
| In office 1 July 1856 – 20 November 1861 | |
| Preceded by | office established |
| Succeeded by | Sir Richard Hanson |
| Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia | |
| In office July 1838 – 20 November 1861 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Charles Cooper 1795 |
| Died | 24 May 1887 (aged 91–92) London, England |
| Spouse | Emily Newenham |
Sir Charles Cooper (1795 – 24 May 1887) was the first Chief Justice of South Australia and for two years a politician in the colony of South Australia.
Early life and education
Charles Cooper was born in 1795 Henley-on-Thames, the third son of Thomas Cooper, under-sheriff of Oxfordshire.
He entered the Inner Temple in 1822 and was called to the bar in February 1827.
Career
He and his sister Sarah Ann Cooper traveled to the colony of South Australia onboard the Katherine Stewart Forbes, arriving in Adelaide in March 1839.
In September 1860 was sworn in as a member of the Executive Council of South Australia, which was part of the government in the now self-governing colony.
Honours and legacy
While in South Australia he had a seaside residence adjacent to "The Grange", Charles Sturt's property for which Grange Beach was named. It is likely that Henley Beach was named for Cooper's hometown, after Cooper rejected Sturt's proposed name "Cooper's Beach".[1]
His city home, at south-east corner of Whitmore Square, was in May 1870 re-opened as the Bushmen's Club, a facility for members visiting the city.[2]
Personal life
Cooper married in 1853 Emily Grace Newenham, eldest daughter of Charles Burton Newenham, Sheriff of the Province. They had no children, and she outlived him.
His sister Sarah Ann Cooper (c. 1804 – 31 May 1895) married William Bartley (1801–1885), Senior Solicitor to the Lands Titles Office, on 23 September 1852.
References
Sources
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Cooper, Charles". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- "Cooper, Sir Charles (1795 - 1887)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. 1966.
This article was published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, (Melbourne University Press), 1966
Citations
- ↑ "Out Among the People". The Advertiser (Adelaide). Vol. 95, no. 29, 536. South Australia. 12 June 1953. p. 4. Retrieved 1 December 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ "The Bushmen's Home". The South Australian Advertiser. South Australia. 21 May 1870. p. 2. Retrieved 15 March 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
External links
- Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. p. 103 – via Wikisource.
- ↑ Cooper was the sole judge on the Supreme Court from 1838 to 1850. He was officially appointed Chief Justice on 1 July 1856.
- 1795 births
- 1887 deaths
- Chief justices of South Australia
- Judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia
- Colony of South Australia judges
- 19th-century Australian judges
- South Australian politicians
- People from Henley-on-Thames
- 19th-century Australian politicians
- Politicians from the Colony of South Australia