Charles Heydon

Charles Gilbert Heydon QC (25 August 1845 – 1 January 1932) was an Australian politician and judge.

He was born in Sydney to journeyman printer Jabez King Heydon and Sophia Hayes. He attended St Mary's Cathedral School and became a barrister, being called to the bar in 1875. On 8 September 1880 he married Miriam Josepha Makinson, with whom he had two sons; Miriam died in 1896 and in 1909 he married Sybil Russell. He was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1893, and served as Attorney-General from 1893 to 1894. He resigned in March 1898 but was re-appointed later in the year, before resigning in 1900 to take up a seat on the District Court.[1] He had taken silk in 1896. From 1905 he was president of the Arbitration Court, and from 1908 sat on the Industrial Court.[2] Heydon died at Potts Point in 1932.[3]

References
  1. "The Hon. Charles Gilbert Heydon, QC (1845 - 1932)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 5 May 2019.
  2. Frazer, Andrew (2003). "Ch 4 Charles Gilbert Heydon (1920-1926)". In Patmore, Greg (ed.). Laying the Foundations of Industrial Justice: The Presidents of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW, 1902-1998. Federation Press. ISBN 9781862874633.
  3. Rutledge, Martha; Bennett, J M. "Heydon, Charles Gilbert (1845–1932)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.


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