Charles Hamilton Bromby (17 July 1843 – 24 July 1904), BA LCL was an

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in the colonial

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n government.

Early life

Bromby was the second son of Right Rev.

Charles Henry Bromby Charles Henry Bromby (11 July 181414 April 1907) was the Anglican Bishop of Tasmania from 1864 to 1882. Early life Bromby was the second son of John Healey Bromby (a priest) and brother of John Edward Bromby. He was born in Hull, England. He ...

, Bishop of Tasmania, by Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late William Hulme Bodley, of Brighton, Sussex. He was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 17 July 1843, and educated at

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and

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, where he graduated.

Legal and political career

He entered as a student of the

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on 7 June 1864, and was called to the bar on 18 November 1867. He emigrated to

, where he arrived in December 1874, and was M.H.A. for Central Launceston from 1876 to 1877, for Norfolk Plains from 1877 to 1878, and subsequently for Richmond. Bromby was Attorney-General in Reibey's Ministry, and a member of the Executive Council from 20 July 1876, to 9 August 1877. He was admitted a member of the bar of

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in 1881; before returning to England, and practising as a

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in London and on the North-Eastern Circuit. He edited ''Spike's Law of Master and Servant'', 3rd edition. Bromby was a supporter of

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and attended the Irish Race Convention in 1896.

Personal life

Bromby married Mary Ellen Hensman. He died 24 July 1904, in St Marylebone, London, England.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bromby, Charles Hamilton 1843 births 1904 deaths Colony of Tasmania people Attorneys-general of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford 19th-century Australian politicians British emigrants to colonial Australia