Alfred Lutwyche
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Justice Alfred James Peter Lutwyche,
Early life
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Lutwyche was the eldest son of John Lutwyche, of a
Immigration
Suffering poor health, Lutwyche decided to immigrate to Australia. In 1853, he embarked in London on the Meridian bound for Melbourne. The ship was wrecked on the Island of Amsterdam in the southern Indian Ocean. It was a miracle that almost all on board (apart from the captain, the cook and one passenger) survived. At the wreck site, they were faced with a 200-foot lava cliff, which the sailors scaled and then hauled up the passengers. The ship broke up before any provisions could be gathered, but they were able to catch fish, which enabled them to survive for 12 days before Captain Isaac Ludlow of the American whaler Monmouth found them and took them to Mauritius. Lutwyche then travelled on the Emma Colvin to Melbourne, arriving in December 1853.[3][4][5]
New South Wales
Having entered the
Queensland
In February 1859 Lutwyche was appointed Resident Judge of what was then the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales. Two years later, in August 1861, he became sole Judge of the new Supreme Court of Queensland, and occupied the bench unaided until the arrival of the first Chief Justice, Sir James Cockle, in February 1863. But for a certain lack of self-restraint in his judgements and utterances, Mr. Lutwyche would himself have been appointed the first Chief Justice of Queensland, and he keenly felt the disallowance of his claims.[2]
Personal life
In 1855, while in Sydney, Alfred Lutwyche married a widow, Mary Ann (Jane) Morris (née Simpson) at St Lawrence's Anglican Church. Jane (as she was commonly known) had 4 children from her marriage to George Henry Morris. The Morris family were also among the survivors of the 1853 wreck of the Meridian but George Morris succumbed to tuberculosis in 1854 in Sydney. Alfred and Jane Lutwyche had no children.[5][8]
Lutwyche was a wealthy settler who owned vast tracts of land in
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In 1865, Lutwyche donated a block of land near
Death
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Lutwyche died at his residence, Kedron Lodge, 123 Nelson Street,
His widow Jane died at her residence Park Villa, Park Road, Lutwyche, Brisbane on 6 January 1891 and is buried with her husband in St Andrew's churchyard. A memorial cross at St Andrew's commemorates the couple.[14][15]
Legacy
The north Brisbane inner-city suburb of Lutwyche, the Lutwyche Cemetery in Kedron, Lutwyche Road and the Kedron State High School and Windsor State School sporting house are named in his honour.[16]
Publications
With his background in law and journalism, Lutwyche was a prolific writer. Of particular interest are the following works:
- Lutwyche, Alfred (1854), A narrative of the wreck of the Meridian, on the island of Amsterdam (PDF), Waugh and Cox
See also
References
- ^
Howell, P. A. "Lutwyche, Alfred James (1810–1880)". OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 7 October 2012.
- ^ a b c d Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ The Brisbane Courier. 14 June 1880. p. 3. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- ^ Lutwyche, Alfred (1854), A narrative of the wreck of the Meridian, on the island of Amsterdam, Waugh and Cox, archived from the original on 2 February 2014, retrieved 28 January 2014
- ^ a b "WRECK OF THE MERIDIAN". The Empire. Sydney. 13 December 1853. p. 2. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- ^ "NSW senior counsel appointments". NSW Bar Association. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Mr Alfred James Peter Lutwyche (1810-1880)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
- ^ Ancestry user: mooneyjoy_1. "Alfred James Peter Lutwyche". Eames family tree. Ancestry.com. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
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has generic name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Kedron Lodge (entry 600238)". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ a b "History". About Us. St Andrew's Anglican Church, Lutwyche. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
- Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate. NSW. 14 June 1880. p. 2. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- The Brisbane Courier. 14 June 1880. p. 1. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- The Brisbane Courier. 16 June 1880. p. 3. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- The Brisbane Courier. 7 January 1891. p. 4. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- The Brisbane Courier. 8 January 1891. p. 1. Retrieved 28 January 2014 – via Trove.
- ^ "Lutwyche (entry 44515)". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
External links
Media related to Alfred Lutwyche at Wikimedia Commons