Ernest Brougham Docker (1 April 1842 – 12 August 1923) was an Australian judge, cricketer and

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Biography

Docker was the oldest son of New South Wales pastoralist and politician

Joseph Docker Hon. Joseph Docker (1802 – 9 December 1884), was an Australian grazier, early amateur photographer and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1856 to 1861, and again from 1863 until his death in1884. Docke ...

, and his second wife Matilda née Brougham. He was born at his father's estate "Thornthwaite", near

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, in the Upper Hunter Region of

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.Woodman, Stewart J
"Docker, Ernest Brougham (1842–1923)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography. Published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 12 May 2020. He graduated B.A. in 1863 and M.A. in 1865 from

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. Docker was a cricketer in his younger days. He played one first-class match for

in February 1863. Docker was admitted to the colonial Bar on 28 June 1867. He was crown prosecutor for the northern district (1875), the south-western district (1878), and judge of the District Court and chairman of Quarter Sessions for the north-western district (1881). From 1884 to 1912 he was in the western district. He retired in 1918. Following the pioneering lead of his father Joseph in this field in Australia, Docker took a great interest in photography. He joined the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1876 and was president of the Photographic Society of New South Wales from 1894 to 1907. He married Clarissa Mary Tucker in 1873. She died in June 1918. They had seven daughters and two sons. He died at his home in the harbourside suburb of Elizabeth Bay in August 1923, aged 81.

''If Jesus Did Not Die Upon the Cross''

In 1920 Docker authored ''If Jesus Did Not Die Upon the Cross'', an early work to argue for the swoon hypothesis that Jesus survived his

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. He theorized that Jesus was in a state of catalepsy or self-hypnosis which gave the impression of death. Docker also asserted that the

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thrust by the soldier may have not occurred and Jesus was given clothing by the "gardener" mentioned in John 20:15.Zugibe, Frederick Thomas. (2005). ''The Crucifixion of Jesus: A Forensic Inquiry''. M. Evans & Company. p. 149. Docker's ideas were rejected by

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who commented that "there is no valid documentation to support his hypothesis."

Selected publications

''If Jesus Did Not Die Upon the Cross''
(1920); digitised version at

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Docker, Ernest Brougham 1842 births 1923 deaths 19th-century Australian judges Australian cricketers New South Wales cricketers Australian photographers Photographers from New South Wales Swoon hypothesis University of Sydney alumni

Biography

''If Jesus Did Not Die Upon the Cross''

Selected publications

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