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Line 3: {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Infobox Politician | image =File: | caption = Portrait of John Fletcher Hargrave, ca. 1875 | name = John Fletcher Hargrave | honorific-prefix = Line 32: | relations = | spouse = Ann Hargrave | children = [[Lawrence Hargrave]] | residence = | occupation = Line 52: Following his resignation, he was appointed [[Solicitor General for New South Wales]] on 21 February 1859 in the [[Cowper ministry (1857–59)|second Cowper ministry]] and held that appointment until 26 October of that year.<ref name="John Hargrave NSW Parl"/> He was not a member of parliament at the time he was appointed Solicitor General and [[Robert Owen]], the member for [[Electoral district of Eastern Division of Camden|East Camden]], was appointed to the District Court to replace Hargrave, and Hargrave in turn replaced Owen as the member for East Camden at the [[1859 East Camden colonial by-election|resulting by-election]].<ref>{{Cite NSW election |title=1859 East Camden by-election |year=1858 |district=CamdenEast_1 |access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref> East Camden was abolished in 1859, partly replaced by [[Electoral district of Illawarra|Illawarra]], and Hargrave was successful at the [[Results of the 1859 New South Wales colonial election#Illawarra|election on 15 June]],<ref>{{Cite NSW election |year=1859 |district=Illawarra |access-date=2021-01-24}}</ref> but only served until 11 October 1859, when he resigned to accept an appointment to the Legislative Council.<ref name="John Hargrave NSW Parl">{{cite NSW Parliament |name=Mr John Fletcher Hargrave, QC (1815-1885) |id=434 |former=Yes |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref> On 12 October 1859 he was appointed to the [[Legislative Council of New South Wales|Legislative Council]], filling the vacant role of [[Representative of the Government in the Legislative Council (New South Wales)|Representative of the Government in the Legislative Council]]. When the second Cowper ministry resigned, In Parliament he was on the: Line 65: He was appointed a judge of the [[Supreme Court of New South Wales]] on 22 June 1865 but his swearing-in was boycotted by the New South Wales Bar.<ref name=adb>{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |last=Bennett |first=J M |year=1972 |id2=hargrave-john-fletcher-3718 |title=Hargrave, John Fletcher (1815-1885) |access-date=19 April 2019}}</ref> He was the Judge in divorce appointed to the Divorce Division of the Court. He proved to be a disaster on the bench and he admitted that he did not sit before 11am or work after 1pm. He retired as a judge in 1881.<ref>{{cite web|title=John Fletcher Hargrave (1815–1885) |url=http://www.parlpapers.sl.nsw.gov.au/display.cfm?parl_id=7400 |access-date=30 August 2008 |publisher=New South Wales Government |year=2006 |work=State Library of New South Wales project for the Sesquicentenary of Responsible Government in NSW, 1856–2006}}</ref> He became reader He died at [[Rushcutters Bay]] on {{date of death and age|1885|2|23|1815|12|28|df=y}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13579844 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=26 February 1885 |access-date=22 September 2022 |page=1 |via=Trove}}</ref> and was buried in [[Waverley Cemetery]]. His wife Ann died on the [[North Shore (Sydney)|North Shore]] on 29 October 1885 (aged 66).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13602228 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=31 October 1885 |access-date=22 September 2022 |page=1 |via=Trove}}</ref> Line 119: [[Category:Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge]] [[Category:Australian King's Counsel]] [[Category:Attorneys [[Category:Solicitors [[Category:Colony of New South Wales judges]] [[Category:19th-century Australian politicians]] | |||