Sir Roger Therry (22 April 1800 – 17 May 1874) was an Irish-Australian jurist and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.[1]
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Welcome to the Supreme Court Victoria website. This is a new innovation for the Court. We hope you will find it helpful, interesting and perhaps exciting. Let me tell you a little bit about the Supreme Court first of all. It is the highest court in the state. We deal with trials and appeals. We deal with, by and large, the most serious complex matters that occur in the justice system in this state. We consist of judges, associate judges and judicial registrars. We all play a very important part in the administration of justice but also in achieving the rule of law in the State of Victoria, and to some extent the country, Australia. Independent courts, free from the executive arm of government, are fundamental to the rule of law which underpins out democracy. We are a free society, because the rule of law operates and is respected here in Victoria and Australia. Judges day in, day out, ensure that disputes between citizens and disputes between citizens and government are resolved, independently without favour. Each individual should be able to leave the courthouses all across the state, knowing that they have had a fair and independent hearing. what we are doing with the website. For a long time our website has not being as good as it should have been. We have set about modernizing it. Our purpose is to provide information to the community and the litigation community - the lawyers who come to the courts all the time. Here on our website you should be able to find information about our history, our judges, day-to-day routine information such as where cases are listed. There will also be lots of educational information about cases that are being heard and cases that have been decided. Judges' decisions, the reasons for their sentences, will be on the website. Some will be streamed and you will be able to see either film or hear audio footage of why a judge has decided a case the way they have. This is an important part of achieving accountability and transparency of the judiciary. It is really important for us to provide confidence for the public in what we do. The refreshed website is part of the Court's new approach to technology. It is part of the new age. Through the website you will be able to link into Facebook, Twitter, and the Court's YouTube channel. The Court is very much embracing social media. It is a quick convenient way for you to keep in touch with what we're doing. It is also a wonderful way for us to be able to let you know what is happening in the Supreme Court, and in particular our decisions. Some of you may want to do more than that. You might like to actually come to the Court and watch justice played out. Through the new website, linking into RSS, you will be able to read not only the news of the Court but also speeches and publications. You will be able to keep in touch with what judges are doing. So welcome to the website. I hope you find it beneficial.
Biography
Therry was born in Cork, County Cork, Ireland and educated at Clongowes College and Trinity College, Dublin.[2] He was called to the bar in Ireland in 1824 and in England in 1827. His A Letter to the Right Hon. George Canning on the Present State of the Catholic Question, published in 1826 (second edition 1827) probably led to his acquaintance with Canning, who employed him to edit his speeches and prepare them for publication. The Speeches of George Canning (1828)[2] were published after Canning's death with a life of Canning written by Therry. By the influence of Canning's widow and friends Therry was appointed commissioner of the court of requests for New South Wales.[3] and in July 1829 he sailed for Sydney,[3] arriving in November.[2]
Therry was a Roman Catholic, and on his arrival found that most of the Catholics were poor, and few held important positions in Sydney. The Church of England (now known as the Anglican Church) was comparatively well subsidised by the state, but very little was allowed to the Roman Catholic clergy. He endeavoured with considerable success to improve their position, and for the next 30 years held an important place amongst Catholics. He was made a magistrate in April 1830.[4] Therry appeared as junior to Attorney General John Plunkett in the prosecution of 11 colonists charged with murder in relation to the Myall Creek massacre.[5][6] In 1839 he refused appointment as an acting judge. Governor George Gipps, in a dispatch notifying this to Lord Glenelg, referred to Plunkett and Therry as the "two most distinguished barristers of New South Wales".[2]
Therry was appointed acting attorney-general in May 1841,[4] and at the first election for the New South Wales Legislative Council held in 1843 he was elected as the representative of the County of Camden.[1] during this time Therry commissioned Keera Vale House, a Georgian mansion recorded as Wollongong's oldest standing house, built 1844. In December 1844 Therry was appointed to the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip and held the position as resident judge until February 1846, when he returned to Sydney as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He visited England in 1848. Therry was nominated to the new Legislative Council on 22 May 1856,[1] (by then the upper house of the New South Wales parliament) whilst remaining a judge of the Supreme Court. He retired on a pension in 1859,[3] in England.[2]
Therry's Reminiscences of Thirty Years Residence in New South Wales and Victoria was published in February 1863,[2][7] and immediately withdrawn.[3] Reviews of the book in the United Kingdom were favourable and demand was high; a second edition was proposed by the publisher.[2] The new edition, published in April 1863,[2] was not, however, an "expurgated version" as has been stated.[3] Some errors were corrected, but the changes are not considerable. The most important changes were the fuller justice given to the work of three governors, Gipps, Charles Augustus FitzRoy, and Charles La Trobe, and the addition of a map.[3] In October 1863, Therry heard about the criticism of the book in Sydney where it had become unsaleable.[2]
Therry was one of the first members of the Senate of Sydney University.[4]
Therry died in Bath, Somerset, England on 17 May 1874.[2] He was survived by Lady Therry and at least three children; a son entered the army and served in India, one daughter married a British navy officer and another daughter entered Subiaco Convent,[2] on Subiaco Creek. Therry was knighted in 1869.
See also
- List of judges of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- List of Judges for the District of Port Phillip
References
- ^ a b c "Sir Roger Therry (1800–1874)". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Currey, CH. "Therry, Sir Roger (1800–1874)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Serle, Percival (1949). "Therry, Roger". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- ^ a b c Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ Reece, RHW (1974). Aborigines and Colonists: Aborigines and Colonial Society in New South Wales in the 1830s and 1840s. Sydney University Press. p. 147. ISBN 9780424063508.
- ^ Geoff, Lindsay (2007). "Aborigines, colonists and the law, 1838" (PDF). ForbesSociety.org.au. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Therry, Roger (1863). Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in New South Wales and Victoria. S. Low, Son, and Company.
External links
- Works by or about Roger Therry at Internet Archive
- Colonial Secretary's papers 1822-1877, State Library of Queensland- includes digitised letters written by Therry to the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
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