Charles Hamilton Bromby

Charles Hamilton Bromby (July 17, 1843–July 24, 1904), BA LCL was an Attorney-General in the colonial Tasmanian government.

Early life

Bromby was the second son of Right Rev. Charles Henry Bromby, Bishop of Tasmania, by Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late William Hulme Bodley, of Brighton, Sussex. He was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on July 17, 1843, and educated at Cheltenham College and St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, where he graduated.

Legal and political career

He entered as a student of the Inner Temple on June 7, 1864, and was called to the bar on November 18, 1867. He emigrated to Tasmania, where he arrived in December 1874, and was M.H.A. for Launceston from 1876 to 1877, for Longford from 1877 to 1878, and subsequently for Richmond. Bromby was Attorney-General in Reibey's Ministry, and a member of the Executive Council from July 20, 1876, to August 9, 1877. He was admitted a member of the bar of New South Wales in 1881; before returning to England, and practising as a barrister in London and on the North-Eastern Circuit. He edited Spike's Law of Master and Servant, 3rd edition.[1]

Personal life

Bromby married Mary Ellen Hensman. He died July 24, 1904, in St. Marylebone, London, England.

References

  1. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Wikisource link to Bromby, Charles Hamilton". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
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