Joseph Innes

Sir Joseph George Long Innes (16 October 1834 – 28 October 1896), was a judge and politician in colonial Australia, and Attorney General of New South Wales from 1873 to 1875.[1]

Innes grave at Waverley Cemetery.

Joseph Innes, 1874 engraving

Innes was born in Sydney, New South Wales the eldest son of Major Joseph Long Innes (superintendent of police) and his wife Elizabeth Anne, the daughter of Thomas Reibey and Mary Reibey.[1] Innes was educated at William Timothy Cape's school[1] and at the King's School, Parramatta.[2] He then went to England, and entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn in November 1856; and, after winning a certificate of honour in May 1859, he was called to the bar in November of the same year.[2] Having returned to Australia, Innes was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1862, and practised till 1865, when he was appointed a district judge in Queensland.[2] This position he resigned in 1869, and returned to practise his profession in Sydney. He also went into politics, and was returned to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Mudgee on 7 March 1872,[3] in May of which year he became Solicitor General in the first Parkes ministry, and in November of the next year Attorney-General in succession to Edward Butler.[2] Having been nominated to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1873, he continued to hold office as Attorney-General in the Parkes Ministry until the break-up of the Government in February 1875. In the previous year he had accompanied Sir Hercules Robinson, the then Governor of New South Wales, on his special mission to Fiji, in connection with the annexation of the island to the British Crown, and was knighted in January 1875 in recognition of his legal services on that occasion.[2] Sir George acted as Chairman of Committees in the Legislative Council till August 1880, when he succeeded Francis Bathurst Suttor as Minister of Justice in the third Parkes ministry, this post he resigned in October 1881, on being appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.[2] Sir George married, in 1865, Emily Janet, daughter of Hon. John Smith, M.L.C., of Llanarth, Bathurst, New South Wales.[2]

Innes died on 28 October 1896 in England, survived by his wife, five sons and a daughter.[1]

References

Allars, K. G. "Innes, Sir Joseph George (1834–1896)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 January 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
Mennell, Philip (1892). "Innes, Hon. Sir Joseph George Long" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
"Sir Joseph George Long Innes (1834-1896)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.

Political offices
Preceded by Edward Butler	Attorney-General 1873–1875	Succeeded by William Dalley
Preceded by William Charles Windeyer	Solicitor General 1872–1873	Dormant Title next held by Richard O'Connor
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Henry Parkes	Member for Mudgee 1872–1873	Succeeded by Joseph O'Connor

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[ADB-1] Allars, K. G. "Innes, Sir Joseph George (1834–1896)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 2 January 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

[Mennell-2] Mennell, Philip (1892). "Innes, Hon. Sir Joseph George Long" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

[Innes_NSW_Parl-3] "Sir Joseph George Long Innes (1834-1896)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2019.