John Kinchela (1774 – 21 July 1845) was an Irish-Australian barrister, politician and judge.
He was born in
Kilkenny
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to merchant and bleacher John Kinchela and Rosina. Kinchela went to
Kilkenny College. He attended
Trinity College, Dublin
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, where he studied law, and from 1798 was a barrister. He was an alderman at Kilkenny in 1817 and served as mayor in 1819. On 4 April 1796 he married Elizabeth Thornton, with whom he had three children; following her death, he married Anne Bourne on 19 February 1807 and had a further three children.
In 1825 he was sent to the
West Indies
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, and after a period in
London
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he was sent to
New South Wales
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as
Attorney General
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in 1831. He held the role until 1836, when he was appointed an acting judge on the
Supreme Court
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. He retired in 1837 to become deputy commissary in the Vice Admiralty Court, and in 1840 he became master of equity. He retired for good in 1841 due to ill health, and died at
Liverpool
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in 1845.
References
External links
Colonial Secretary's papers 1822-1877 State Library of Queensland
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- includes digitised correspondence and letters written by Kinchela to the
Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
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on matters relating to the
Moreton Bay settlement
1774 births
1845 deaths
People educated at Kilkenny College
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
19th-century Australian judges
Colony of New South Wales judges
Attorneys General of the Colony of New South Wales
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