# Henry Jickling

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'''Henry Jickling''' (c.1800 – 19 September 1873)<ref name=Chron>
{{cite news
 |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93310344
 |title=Western Australia.
 |newspaper=[South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail](/source/The_Chronicle_(South_Australia))
 |location=Adelaide, S.A.
 |date=22 November 1873
 |accessdate=25 September 2014
 |page=2 Supplement: Supplement to the South Australian Chronicle
 |via=National Library of Australia
}}</ref> was appointed as a caretaker judge in 1837 to the [Supreme Court of South Australia](/source/Supreme_Court_of_South_Australia), which is the [highest ranking court](/source/Australian_court_hierarchy) in the Australian [State](/source/States_and_territories_of_Australia) of [South Australia](/source/South_Australia).

On 19 November 1837, Judge [John Jeffcott](/source/John_Jeffcott) left the colony of South Australia for Tasmania.  This left Jickling as the only lawyer in Adelaide, South Australia's capital; consequently, he was appointed an acting judge while Jeffcott was gone. Jeffcott, however, died at sea on 12 December 1837, leaving Jickling in charge of the Court. Although appointed as a caretaker judge, Jickling was responsible for two important issues: he codified the testamentary causes jurisdiction of the Court and admitted the first practitioners of the Court, in March 1838.<ref>{{cite web |title=Supreme Court History |url=http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/OurCourts/SupremeCourt/Pages/History.aspx |website=Supreme Court of South Australia |accessdate=5 March 2019 |archive-date=6 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042748/http://www.courts.sa.gov.au/OurCourts/SupremeCourt/Pages/History.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Jickling was also a member of the [South Australian Legislative Council](/source/Members_of_the_South_Australian_Legislative_Council%2C_1836%E2%80%931843).<ref>{{cite SA-parl |pid=4083 |name=Mr Henry Jickling |former=yes |access-date=2022-08-23}}</ref>

After [Charles Cooper](/source/Charles_Cooper_(judge)) arrived as the [Chief Justice of South Australia](/source/Chief_Justice_of_South_Australia), Jickling ceased to be a judge, and practised at the bar for some years, until he was appointed to the office of Master of the Court, in which position he remained for some years until he retired on the pension then open to all Government officers who had served for a certain period, and returned to England.

Jinkling died at St. Helier's, [Jersey](/source/Jersey) on 19 September 1873, aged 73.<ref name=Chron/>

==See also==
* [Judiciary of Australia](/source/Judiciary_of_Australia)

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{{s-aft|after= [Charles Cooper](/source/Charles_Cooper_(judge)) |as=[Chief Justice of South Australia](/source/Chief_Justice_of_South_Australia)}}
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Category:19th-century Australian politicians
Category:Politicians from the Colony of South Australia

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