Mr Alfred James Peter LUTWYCHE (1810 - 1880)

Date of Birth: 26/02/1810
Place of Birth: London, England
Date of Death: 12/06/1880
Place of Death: Queensland, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council	24 Sep 1856	22 Feb 1859	2yr(s) 4mth(s) 30day(s)	First (Quinquennial) Appointments under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 12 September 1856.
Solicitor General and Representative of Government	12 Sep 1856	2 Oct 1856	21day(s)
Solicitor General	7 Sep 1857	14 Nov 1858	1yr(s) 2mth(s) 8day(s)
Representative of Government	19 Nov 1857	22 Feb 1859	1yr(s) 3mth(s) 4day(s)
Attorney General	15 Nov 1858	21 Feb 1859	3mth(s) 7day(s)

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Lawyer (barrister). Educated at Charterhouse and Queens College, Oxford (BA 1832, MA 1835). Admitted to Middle Temple in 1831; from 1833 supplemented income by reporting parliamentary debates. Read law at Gray's Inn. Called to the Bar in 1840. Practised as a barrister and wrote law reports. Appointed as a Supreme Court Judge at Moreton Bay and held position until death. Acting Chief Justice from 1878 until 1879. Devout Anglican purchasing a site for a church in a village near his property. Churchwarden until 1880.

Personal

Eldest son of John Lutwyche, leather merchant, and Jemima Holt. Married Mary Anne Jane Morris on 2 June 1855 at Sydney. Church of England.

Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), Volume 5

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