SIR FREDERICK DARLEY

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 410, 20 January 1909, Page 7

SIR FREDERICK DARLEY

IB* Tii,jioiupn'-j , ii)535 issociXTiow-TOoprftipni,) ■/iChiefJysiicß Darby'has ; bee)i given 'tiyelVo montusUoavp of prior to retirement. ' : Mri' J.ustioq Simpson' -has. been. appointed Acting Chief Justice; '■','''.',; .': .v;" '.' V , : [ :Sir. , Frederick• Dariey was ! born in Ireland (County.•-..Wioklow) on. September 18,' .1830. John's , "Notable Australians' records' that after 'falcihg honours at Dublin University he was called to the Irish Bar ia 1853, and emigrated nina.yeara later, to New 'South Wales,-where he joined t]ie colonial Bar; being:appointed a Queen's; Counsel in: IB7S. .■ Hβ. was called to the legislative Counoil in 1868,' .Pram'' 1881. to 1883 was Vice-president of thepseontive Council, and.representative of the Parlces Government in the , Upper House. In lSß6he -was appointed Chief, Justice, an office whioh he has Kold'?ver since, w<l since ,189Vhe has been ,, ■rMoutenant-Govarnbr' of; the.State. He has been sworn in and apted'-in. that position'oh'seven QQcasionß, aggregating • three years :and ; seven months;-During* visit to England in 1002 he was appointed: a.member of the Imperial Royal , Commission oil the South African war. The Chief Justice was.knighted, in IBS 7, oceated ICO.H.G, in 1897, G.C.M,Q. in 1901, and was madeaPrivy Councillor in 1505.'.-. ' • '■ : '-'.'iPhe Hon. Georgeßpwen Simpson, nowAoting ,CUief-Justicey ;wds ■born-at -Oaklands,: near parraraatta',■'. New South Wales), in, 1838, the son pf Captain Peroy : Simpson, : police magisi trate. of i Singleton. He was. called■: to the ■ New South "Wales Bar in November, 1858, and was appointed a Q.C. in ~1886...' For : Bdme •'time' , .he' was Crown Prosecutor and a District-Court Judge, but. resigned that appointment in 1874 to resume praotice at ■' the Bar, He was appointed to the Council.in 18$5, was Attorriey-General .and representative .of the Eob'ertson 'Ministry in' that Chamber in and held 1 , similar office inthe Parkes and Reid Government?. 1 ' . . , ~ ■,■ ;i ■ ■ ■ '■