| 词条 | Valentine Fleming (judge) |
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Sir Valentine Fleming {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KC}} (13 November 1809{{spaced ndash}}25 October 1884) was an English Australian judge, Solicitor-General, Attorney-General and public servant, who was Chief Justice of Van Dieman's Land (now Tasmania) BiographyFleming was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, the second son of Captain Valentine Fleming of Tuam, County Galway and his wife Catherine, a daughter of John Hunter Gowan II. Fleming was educated at Bangor and Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with honours in 1834. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn on 21 January 1838. In 1841 Fleming was appointed commissioner of insolvent debtors, Hobart, Tasmania. He became Solicitor-General in 1844, Attorney-General in 1848, an official member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1851 and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1854. He was knighted in 1856 and retired on a pension of £1000 a year at the end of 1869 but was acting Chief Justice from 1872 to 1874. From March to May 1874 administered the government. He died near Reigate, England on 25 October 1884. He married twice: once to Elizabeth Oke, daughter of Charles Buckland, and second to Fanny Maria, daughter of William Seccombe, who survived him. References
Additional sources listed by the Australian Dictionary of Biography: L. F. S. Hore, Digest of Cases Decided in Tasmania, 1856–1896 (Hobart, 1897); W. A. Townsley, The Struggle for Self-Government in Tasmania 1842–1856 (Hobart, 1951); Times (London), 28 Oct 1884; GO 1/95/21, 33/79/404, 33/81/24. {{s-start}}{{s-legal}}{{s-bef|before=Sir John Pedder}}{{s-ttl|title=Chief Justice of Van Dieman's Land|years=1854-1869}}{{s-aft|after=Sir Francis Smith}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming, Valentine}} 12 : Chief Justices of Tasmania|Judges of the Supreme Court of Tasmania|Solicitors-General of Tasmania|Attorneys-General of Tasmania|1809 births|1884 deaths|People from Ashby-de-la-Zouch|Members of Gray's Inn|Colony of Tasmania judges|Van Diemen's Land judges|19th-century Australian judges|Australian Queen's Counsel |
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