Henry Hicks Hocking Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Sir
Henry Hicks Hocking
Office:Attorney-General of Western Australia
Term Start:December 1872
Term End:25 February 1879
Predecessor:Robert John Walcott
Successor:George Walpole Leake
Office2:Attorney General of Jamaica
Term Start2:1881
Term End2:1896
Predecessor2:Edward Loughlin O'Malley
Successor2:Henry Rawlins Pipon Schooles
Birth Date:16 July 1842
Birth Place:Kennington, Surrey, England
Death Date:9 June 1907
Alma Mater:St John's College, Oxford
Occupation:Colonial administrator

Henry Hicks Hocking (16 July 1842 – 9 June 1907) was a British colonial administrator.

He was born the son of Richard Hocking, a merchant of Kennington, Surrey, and educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he graduated with a BA in 1864 and BCL in 1867. He entered the Inner Temple to study law and was called to the bar in 1867.

After some years in practice in England, Hocking went to Western Australia where he served as Attorney-General of Western Australia from 1872 to 1879, excepting a period in 1874/5 when he was acting Chief Justice in the absence of Archibald Burt. In 1879/80 he was acting Chief Justice of Gibraltar.[1]

He was knighted in 1895.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Parliament of Western Australia. 15 July 2017.