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.