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Field, Barron (1786 - 1846) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | FIELD, BARRON (1786-1846), judge, was born on 23 October 1786, second son of Henry Field, surgeon and apothecary, a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell, and Esther, née Barron. |
 | | Field shared the animus of the 'Parramatta Party' against Dr Douglass, and cordially endorsed what Francis Forbes later described as the 'extra-judicial and unwarrantable proceedings unsanctioned by any law and unsupported by any intelligible good feeling', of Samuel Marsden and four other justices of the peace in the case of Ann Rumsby. |
 | | Field sailed for England in the Competitor in February 1824 without waiting for the arrival of his successor or for the reconstitution of the Supreme Court, and so, in effect, deserted his post; but Brisbane was not sorry to see him go. |
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