Joseph Gellibrand | |
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| Born | Joseph Tice Gellibrand 1792 |
| Died | 1837 (aged 44–45) |
| Occupation | First attorney-general of Van Diemen's Land |
| Known for | Disappearance and death |
Joseph Tice Gellibrand (1792 – 1837) was the first Attorney-General of the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian island province of Tasmania), where he gained notoriety with his attempts to establish full rights of trial by jury. He became an integral part of the Port Phillip Association, producing the Batman Treaty in an attempt to obtain extensive landholdings from the local Aboriginal people around Port Phillip. Gellibrand was also later part of an ill-fated expedition into the region west of Geelong, where he disappeared and was assumed to have been killed by Aboriginal people in the Otway Range.