About Jeffery Hart Bent
Lived 1781 – 1852 (aged 70–71). Jeffery Hart Bent was an Australian judge.
Jeffery Hart Bent, occasionally known as Geoffrey Hart Bent (1781 – 29 June 1852) was the first judge in the colony of New South Wales and the first Australian judge to be removed from office.
Bent was born to MP Robert Bent. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1804, and M.A. in 1807. He was called to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1806. His older brother was Ellis Bent.
Bent was appointed Chief Justice of Grenada from 1820 to 1833 (where he was twice suspended), of St Lucia, 1833–1836, and of British Guiana from 1836 where he died (in Georgetown), on 29 June 1852.
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Australian judge
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Jeffery Hart Bent was born in 1781.
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Jeffery Hart Bent died on 29 June 1852.
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Jeffery Hart Bent was a judge.
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