Valentine Fleming (judge)
- Valentine Fleming (judge)
Sir Valentine Fleming (13 November 1809 – 25 October 1884) was a Chief Justice of Tasmania.
Fleming was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England, the son of Captain Valentine Fleming of Tuam, County Galway and his wife Catherine, daughter of John Hunter Gowan. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with honours in 1834. He was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1838.
In 1841 Fleming was appointed commissioner of insolvent debtors, Hobart, Tasmania. He became solicitor-general in 1844, attorney-general in 1848, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1854. He was knighted in 1856 and retired on a pension of £1000 a year at the end of 1869 but was acting chief justice from 1872 to 1874. From March to May 1874 administered the government. He died near Reigate, England on 25 October 1884. He married twice: once to Elizabeth Oke, daughter of Charles Buckland, and second to Fanny Maria, daughter of William Seccombe, who survived him.
References
*M. Gibson, ' [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040203b.htm Fleming, Sir Valentine (1809 - 1884)] ', "Australian Dictionary of Biography", Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp 187-188.
Additional sources listed by the "Australian Dictionary of Biography"::L. F. S. Hore, "Digest of Cases Decided in Tasmania, 1856-1896" (Hobart, 1897); W. A. Townsley, "The Struggle for Self-Government in Tasmania 1842-1856" (Hobart, 1951); "Times" (London), 28 Oct 1884; GO 1/95/21, 33/79/404, 33/81/24.
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