Judges 1874 - 1923

Name	First permanent appointment commenced	Permanent appointment concluded	Select details of Australian judicial service
MANNING, Sir William Montagu, Kt KCMG (1811–1895)	28 April 1876	17 October 1887	Primary Judge in Equity (1881–1887) Previously acting judge (1848–1849)
WINDEYER, Sir William Charles, Kt (1834–1897)	11 August 1881	31 August 1896	Previously acting judge (1879 until his permanent appointment) Judge in Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1879–1896)
INNES, Sir Joseph George Long, Kt (1834–1896)	14 October 1881	28 October 1896	Previously District Court of Queensland (1866–1869)
SALOMONS, Sir Julian Emanuel, Kt (1835–1909)	15 November 1886	27 November 1886	Chief Justice
DARLEY, Sir Frederick Matthew PC GCMG (1830–1910)	29 November 1886	4 January 1910	Chief Justice
STEPHEN, Sir Matthew Henry, Kt (1828–1920)	23 May 1887	25 February 1904
OWEN, Sir William, Kt (1834–1912)	18 October 1887	1 February 1908	Chief Judge in Equity (1887–1896) Previously Commissioner of the Court of Claims (1861–1887)
DEFFELL, George Hibbert (1819–1895)	3 January 1888	9 November 1889	Judge in Bankruptcy (1889) Previously Master in Equity (1857–1866); Chief Commissioner of Insolvent Estates (1865–1887); acting judge (1887)
FOSTER, William John (1831–1909)	14 February 1888	18 December 1894
MANNING, Charles James (1841–1898)	13 November 1889	8 August 1898	Judge in Bankruptcy (1890–1891) Judge in Bankruptcy and Probate (1891–1896) Chief Judge in Equity (1896–1898)
SIMPSON, Sir George Bowen, Kt (1838–1915)	18 December 1894	11 April 1910	Judge in Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1896–1910) Previously District Court (1867–1874)
COHEN, Henry Emanuel (1840–1912)	10 September 1896	5 January 1912	President of the Court of Arbitration (1902–1905)
SIMPSON, Archibald Henry (1843–1918)	21 November 1896	31 December 1917	Judge in Bankruptcy and Probate (1897–1898) Chief Judge in Equity (1898–1917)
WALKER, William Gregory (1848–1910)	23 August 1898	31 December 1906	Judge in Bankruptcy and Probate (1898–1906)
PRING, Robert Darlow (1853–1922)	16 June 1902	31 July 1922	Previously acting judge (1900 until his permanent appointment)
STREET, Sir Philip Whistler KCMG K St J (1863–1938)	1 February 1907	31 January 1934	Judge in Bankruptcy and Probate (1907–1918) Judge in Admiralty (1911–1933) Chief Judge in Equity and Judge in Bankruptcy (1918–1925) Chief Justice (1925–1933) Previously acting judge (1906 until his permanent appointment)
SLY, Richard Meares (1849–1929)	11 February 1908	16 December 1920
CULLEN, Sir William Portus KCMG (1855–1935)	28 January 1910	27 January 1925	Chief Justice
GORDON, Sir Alexander, Kt (1858–1942)	27 April 1910	22 January 1929	Judge in Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1910–1923)
FERGUSON, Sir David Gilbert, Kt (1861–1941)	5 March 1912	6 October 1931	Previously acting judge (1911 until his permanent appointment)
RICH, Sir George Edward PC KCMG (1863–1956)	2 July 1912	5 April 1913	Subsequently Justice of the High Court (1913–1950)
HARVEY, Sir John Musgrave, Kt (1865–1940)	15 April 1913	31 January 1936	Probate Judge (1918–1935) Chief Judge in Equity (1925–1935)
WADE, Sir Charles Gregory KCMG (1863–1922)	15 March 1920	26 September 1922
JAMES, Augustus George Frederic (1866–1934)	5 January 1921	27 February 1934	Previously acting judge (1920 until his permanent appointment)
CAMPBELL, James Lang (1858–1936)	1 September 1922	22 November 1929
OWEN, Sir Langer Meade Loftus, CBE, Kt (1862–1935)	30 October 1922	27 August 1933	Judge in Divorce and Matrimonial Causes (1923–1932) Previously acting judge (1919; June 1922 until his permanent appointment)

Notes

Honorifics may have been conferred during or after judicial service.

Appointment as a Judge is a precondition to appointment as a Judge of Appeal. Appointment as a Judge of Appeal is a precondition to appointment as President of the Court of Appeal. Accordingly, dual or triple concurrent appointments are not recorded in the table.

References to service in a particular Division may not be exhaustive: see Supreme Court Act 1970 s 41.

‘Select details of Australian judicial service’ omits references to short-term periods of concurrent judicial office in another Australian jurisdiction, such as occurred with William Charles Windeyer J, Priestley JA and Sheller JA. Several judges have also served on the courts of the Pacific Islands, Dubai, Hong Kong or Singapore during their term of office on the Supreme Court and after retirement, see Ch 3: ‘The lives of the judges’.

The concurrent service of judges holding appointments in the colonial Vice Admiralty Court as personae designate (see The Yuri Maru [1927] AC 906 at 912) is recorded in the Law Almanacs. Between 1 July 1911 and 1 January 1989, when the Admiralty Act 1988 (Cth) commenced, the Supreme Court was a Colonial Court of Admiralty with civil jurisdiction in admiralty being exercisable by the Chief Justice or a judge nominated by him.

Acting appointments in courts other than the Supreme Court and acting appointments to the Supreme Court during the currency of a permanent appointment to the District Court are not included.