OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 476, 7 April 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

SIR JULIAN SALOMONS, EX-CHIEF JUSTICE. (BY TEIEOIUrn—PRESS ' ASSOCIATION—COr-YHIGIIT.) (Hue. April 0, 8.45 p.m.) Sydney, April e. Obituary: Sir Julian. Salomons, K.C., for« morl/' Chief Justice of Now South Wales, aetat 72. [Sir Julian Salomons was barn at Edgbaston, England, on November i, 183G, and was knighted in 1691. According; to "Johns'? Notable Australians," ho was tho only sou of tho late Emanuel Salomons, merchant, of Birmingham. . He entered at Gray's Inn in 1858, and was called to tho bar iu IiSGI, becoming Bencher in 1899. He proceeded to New South Wales' in 1861, nd rose u> n eminent position m his profession, becoming counsel foi the Crown in. numerous important cases. He was M.L.C. and- Solicitor-General in the Kobortsoe. and Cowper Ministries 18G9-70, and Vice-Pro-siaent of the Executive Council and representative of tho Piirkes Government: in (ho Upper House 1887-9, find again in tho Dibbs Ministry 1891-8. < In 1886, on the death of the Hon. Sii James Martin, he was appointed Chief Justice jf New South Wales, but resigned the office sion afterwords for reasons wMch were made public at' the time. Ho was Agent-General for liis colony in London 1899-1900. Rome years ago ho retired from active politics/but ho took n prominent 1 part in the federation campaign, in which he opposed the Enabling Bill. He was a trustee of the National Gallery and National Park of New South Wales.]