1.-The Late Sir. D. Hanson. 2. His Honour Chief Justice Way, of South Australia. 3. The late Mr. Justice Cheeke.

Scarce c.19th engraving of  renown legal identies;  Sir Richard Davies Hanson (1805–1876),  Sir Samuel James Way (1836 – 1916) and Justice Alfred Cheeke (1810 – 1876)

Sir Richard Davies Hanson, was the fourth premier of South Australia, from 30 September 1857 until 8 May 1860, and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 20 November 1861 until 4 March 1876.

Sir Samuel James Way was an English-Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 18 March 1876 until 8 January 1916.

Cheeke was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He was called to the English bar in 1835, and joined the Oxford Circuit. Having emigrated to Sydney in 1837, he was appointed a magistrate in 1838, and practised as a barrister. In 1841 he was appointed Commissioner of the Court of Claims, and in June of the same year Crown Prosecutor, Chairman of Quarter Sessions in 1844, and Commissioner of the Court of Requests in 1845. From 1851 to 1857 he again acted as Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and from 1858 to 1865 was a District Court Judge. From the latter date till his death, on 14 March 1876, he officiated as a Judge of the Supreme Court.
Cheeke sentenced Irish-born Henry O’Farrell to death for the wounding and attempted assassination of the HRH The Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1868.

From the original edition of the Australasian Sketcher.

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