Add to ORKGJohn Lewes Pedder (1793–1859) served as Chief Justice of Van Diemen’s Land from 1824 to 1854, and his long career provides a unique window into the colonial world – through crime, politics, and frontier collision with the island’s Aboriginal people. Where Pedder’s critics condemn a subservient official who hindered reform and sent hundreds to the gallows, contemporaries lauded an upright judge, courteous gentleman, liberal friend and accomplished scholar. This new biography offers a sensitive account of a complex and surprisingly sympathetic man, who played a significant role in Tasmanian history
This article adds to the biographic \u27\u27turn in legal studies. While there is a large body of s...
ntelligence, ambition, and self-belief took Martin, the son of the Governor's Irish groom, to the pi...
The history of Van Diemen's Land tends to be viewed from above through the correspondence and report...
John Lewes Pedder (1793–1859) served as Chief Justice of Van Diemen’s Land from 1824 to 1854, and hi...
John Pedder, a shy, ascetic, "gentlemanly" personality, was appointed first Chief Justice of Tasmani...
Foundation Chief Justice of Van Diemen’s Land, Sir John Lewes Pedder (1793-1859) was appointed by th...
Foundation chief justice of the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Lewes Pedder (1793 "185...
Selected chapters from the "Biographical memoir of John Montagu" regarding his early life, his arriv...
For two decades in the development of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Captain Charles Swanston (1789−1...
n 1842, a young Anglo-Irish barrister, finding there were “40 hats on the Munster circuit but not en...
Of all Chief Justices in Australia in the 19th century, none so demeaned the office as did Sir Henry...
This research focuses on the development of the jurisprudence of the infant colony of Van Diemen’s L...
Set against the background of a British penal colony established for less than fifteen years, this t...
Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were se...
The period between 1820 and 1850 was one of the most febrile, controversial and dynamic periods in T...
This article adds to the biographic \u27\u27turn in legal studies. While there is a large body of s...
ntelligence, ambition, and self-belief took Martin, the son of the Governor's Irish groom, to the pi...
The history of Van Diemen's Land tends to be viewed from above through the correspondence and report...
John Lewes Pedder (1793–1859) served as Chief Justice of Van Diemen’s Land from 1824 to 1854, and hi...
John Pedder, a shy, ascetic, "gentlemanly" personality, was appointed first Chief Justice of Tasmani...
Foundation Chief Justice of Van Diemen’s Land, Sir John Lewes Pedder (1793-1859) was appointed by th...
Foundation chief justice of the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, Sir John Lewes Pedder (1793 "185...
Selected chapters from the "Biographical memoir of John Montagu" regarding his early life, his arriv...
For two decades in the development of Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), Captain Charles Swanston (1789−1...
n 1842, a young Anglo-Irish barrister, finding there were “40 hats on the Munster circuit but not en...
Of all Chief Justices in Australia in the 19th century, none so demeaned the office as did Sir Henry...
This research focuses on the development of the jurisprudence of the infant colony of Van Diemen’s L...
Set against the background of a British penal colony established for less than fifteen years, this t...
Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were se...
The period between 1820 and 1850 was one of the most febrile, controversial and dynamic periods in T...
This article adds to the biographic \u27\u27turn in legal studies. While there is a large body of s...
ntelligence, ambition, and self-belief took Martin, the son of the Governor's Irish groom, to the pi...
The history of Van Diemen's Land tends to be viewed from above through the correspondence and report...