Record ID:
35027347 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 88130922
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18030721
  • London (England)
Death:
  • 18811227
  • Dunedin (N.Z.)
Associated with:
  • Canada New Zealand Australia Québec (Québec) Hobart (Tas.) Melbourne (Vic.) Victoria
Occupations:
  • Lawyers Political activists Judges
Used for:
  • Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881
  • Chapman, H. S. (Henry Samuel), 1803-1881
Notes:
  • Great Britain. The act for the regulation of municipal corporations ... 1835: t.p. (Henry S. Chapman, Esq.)
  • LC data base, 9-14-88 (hdg.: Chapman, Henry Samuel, 1803-1881; usage: H.S. Chapman)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography (online) 25 November 2020: (Henry Samuel Chapman (1803-1881), judge, colonial secretary, attorney-general and Philosophic Radical, was born on 21 July 1803 at Kennington, London. From 1823 to 1833 Chapman was in Quebec as a commission merchant, and read for the Canadian Bar, and became active in Canadian causes with the British Parliament. In London from 1840 he became active in New Zealand interests, and in 1843 was appointed a judge in Wellington, New Zealand. In 1852 he was appointed colonial sectretary of Van Diemen's Land, arriving there in April 1852, but fell into dispute with the governor, Sir William Denison, over transportation of convicts, and was dismissed. In 1854 he was in Victoria and practised as a barrister and was elected to the Legislative Council. He was briefly Premier in 1858, and was an acting judge, then a temporary justice in the Supreme Court. In 1864 he was appointed a judge in Otago, New Zealand; he retired in 1875 and became Chancellor of the University of Otago. He died at home in Dunedin on 27 December 1881.) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chapman-henry-samuel-3193
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)882979
  • 000000027483
  • abv00082003
Cataloguing source:
  • MdU eng rda DLC DLC VJTL