Ernest Brougham Docker

Ernest Brougham Docker (1 April 1842 – 12 August 1923) was an Australian judge, cricketer and photographer.

Biography Docker was the oldest son of New South Wales pastoralist and politician Joseph Docker, and his second wife Matilda née Brougham. He was born at his father's estate "Thornthwaite", near Scone, in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales. He graduated B.A. in 1863 and M.A. in 1865 from St Paul's College, University of Sydney. He played one first-class match for New South Wales in February 1863.

Docker was admitted to the colonial Bar on 28 June 1867. He was crown prosecutor for the northern district (1875), the south-western district (1878), and judge of the District Court and chairman of Quarter Sessions for the north-western district (1881). They had seven daughters and two sons. He died at his home in the harbourside suburb of Elizabeth Bay in August 1923, aged 81.

Docker's ideas were rejected by Frederick Zugibe who commented that "there is no valid documentation to support his hypothesis."

Selected publications If Jesus Did Not Die Upon the Cross (1920); digitised version at Internet Archive