Jeffery Hart Bent

Jeffery Hart Bent, occasionally known as Geoffrey Hart Bent[1] (1781 – 29 June 1852) was the first judge in the colony of New South Wales and the first Australian judge to be removed from office.[2]

  1. ^ His first name is given as 'Geoffrey' in volume III of Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge.
  2. ^ C. H. Currey (1966). "Bent, Jeffery Hart (1781 - 1852)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1. MUP. pp. 87–92. Retrieved 1 February 2013.