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HIGINBOTHAM, GEORGE (1827-1893)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 458 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HIGINBOTHAM, GEORGE (1827-1893) ,
chief
 -
justice
  of Victoria, Australia,
sixth
  son of T. Higinbotham of Dublin, was born on the 19th of April 1827, and educated at the Royal School,
Dungannon
 , and at Trinity College, Dublin. After entering as a law student at Lincoln's Inn, and being engaged as reporter on the Morning Chronicle in 1849, he emigrated to Victoria, where he contributed to the Melbourne Herald and practised at the bar (having been " called " in 1853) with much success. In 1850 he became editor of the Melbourne Argus, but resigned in 1859 and returned to the bar. He was elected to the legislative assembly in 1861 for
Brighton
  as an independent Liberal, was rejected at the general election of the same year, but was returned nine months later. In 1863 he became attorney-general. Under his influence
measures
  were passed through the legislative assembly of a somewhat extreme character, completely ignoring the rights of the legislative council, and the government was carried on without any Appropriation Act for more than a year. Mr Higinbotham, by his eloquence and earnestness, obtained
great
  influence amongst the members of the legislative assembly, but his colleagues were not prepared to follow him as far as he desired to go. He contended that in a constitutional colony like Victoria the secretary of state for the colonies had no right to fetter the discretion of the queen's representative. Mr Higinbotham did not return to power with his
chief
 , Sir James M'Culloch, after the defeat of the short-lived Sladen administration; and being defeated for
Brighton
  at the next general election by a comparatively unknown man, he devoted himself to his practice at the bar. Amongst his other labours as attorney-general he had codified all the statutes which were in force throughout the colony. In 1874 he was returned to the legislative assembly for Brunswick, but after a few months he resigned his seat. In 188o he was appointed a puisne judge of the supreme court, and in ,886, on the retirement of Sir William Stawell, he was promoted to the office of chief
justice
 . Mr Higinbotham was appointed president of the
International
  Exhibition held a't Melbourne in 1888-1889, but did not take any active part in its management. One of his latest public acts was to subscribe a sum of X10, Ios. a
week
  towards the funds of the strikers in the
great
  Australian labour dispute of 1890, an act which did not meet with general approval. He died in 1893.


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