Alfred Cheeke

{{Short description|Australian judge (1810–1876)}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox politician | image = Alfred Cheeke 1810-1876.jpg | caption = | name = (The Honourable) Alfred Cheeke | birth_place = Evesham, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom | birth_date = 10 March 1810 | death_place = Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1876|03|14|1810|03|10}} | occupation = Judge, barrister | office = Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales | term_start =1865 | term_end= 1876 }}

'''Alfred Cheeke''' (10 March 1810 – 14 March 1876) was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.<ref name="adb"> {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=H. T. E. |last=Holt |title=Cheeke, Alfred (1810–1876) |id2=cheeke-alfred-3197 |accessdate=2 December 2013 }}</ref>

==Biography== Cheeke was born at Evesham, Worcestershire, England, one of eight to solicitor and senior magistrate to the County of Worcestershire John Mosely Gilbert Cheeke and is stated to have been a lineal descendant of the celebrated scholar and statesman Sir John Cheke.<ref name=Mennell>{{cite Australasia|Cheeke, Hon. Alfred}}</ref> He was called to the English bar in 1835, and joined the Oxford Circuit. Having emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1837, he was appointed a magistrate in 1838, and practised as a barrister.<ref name=Mennell/> In 1841 he was appointed Commissioner of the Court of Claims, and in June of the same year Crown Prosecutor, Chairman of Quarter Sessions in 1844, and Commissioner of the Court of Requests in 1845.<ref name=Mennell/> From 1851 to 1857 he again acted as Chairman of Quarter Sessions, and from 1858 to 1865 was a District Court Judge. From the latter date till his death, on 14 March 1876, he officiated as a Judge of the Supreme Court.<ref name=Mennell/> Cheeke sentenced Irish-born Henry O'Farrell to death for the wounding and attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1868.<ref name=adb/>

==Personal life and death==

Cheeke was also a racehorse owner and breeder, his horse ''Clove'' won the Australian Derby in 1865.<ref name=adb/> Cheeke was unmarried, he was buried in St Jude's cemetery, Randwick, New South Wales (the name on his tombstone incorrectly appears as 'Cheek').<ref name=adb/>

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