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201953
  • Title
    Francis Forbes - papers, ca. 1810-1874
  • Creator
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    ca. 1810-1841, 1846, 1855, 1861, 1874
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    201953
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : CY 198 (A 740); CY 1226 (A 741); CY 3992 (A 742 - A 743); CY 3968 (A 744 - A 746); CY 1226 (A 747 - A 748); CY 3968 (A 749); CY 1652 (A 750); CY 986 (A 1381).
  • Physical Description
    1 volumes
    Textual Records
    Textual Records - (printed)
    Clippings
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Francis Forbes, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, was born in Bermuda in 1784. Forbes studied law in London and served as attorney-general in Bermuda before accepting a position as chief justice of Newfoundland from 1816-1822. In 1823 Forbes was appointed chief justice of New South Wales to oversee the reform of the administration of law and order in the colony, arriving in Sydney in 1824. Forbes was also an official member of the Executive and Legislative Councils. All colonial legislation had to bear Forbes certificate that it was not repugnant to the laws of England. Forbes' name is inseparably connected with the introduction into N.S.W. of trial by jury. -- Reference: The Australian encyclopaedia / editor-in-chief: Alec H. Chisholm. Sydney : Grolier Society of Australia, 1965
  • Scope and Content
    Francis Forbes - appointments, correspondence &c., 1810-1846, 1855, 1861, 1875
    Francis Forbes - petitions and reports, ca. 1819, 1833-1837, 1874
    Francis Forbes - papers relating to sentences commuted, 1824-1825
    Francis Forbes - correspondence relating to the Sudds, Thompson, and Robison cases, ca. 1824-1830
    Francis Forbes - 'Trial by Jury', ca. 1824-1836
    Francis Forbes - correspondence mainly relating to liberty of the press, 1825-1828
    Francis Forbes - draft letters on the press, 1827
    Francis Forbes - letters received from Governor Ralph Darling and copies of letters sent to Darling by Forbes, May - June 1827
    Francis Forbes - correspondence mainly relating to cases of libel and freedom of the press, 1827-1836
    Francis Forbes - papers relating to the transportation of convicts, 1836
    Francis Forbes - correspondence relating to the case of Jane New, 1828-1830
  • System of arrangement
    This collection comprises 11 record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.¶By subject series
  • General note

    Volumes A 741 to A 748 appear to be an artificial series being compiled by papers on a specific subject matter and bound in the same covers and endpapers.
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