Alfred Paxton Backhouse
Alfred Paxton Backhouse was an Australian judge of the District Court of New South Wales, and occasional acting Supreme Court judge. He presided over the trials of the 1892 Broken Hill miners strikers, and was an active faculty member of the University of Sydney for over fifty years.
Backhouse was born in Ipswich, Suffolk in England in May 1851. One of seventeen children to Benjamin Backhouse , an architect, and Elizabeth Prentice, ne Fuller. His middle name, Paxton, was selected to honour the creator of The Great Exhibitions Crystal Palace Joseph Paxton as it was on show during the year of his birth. His parents, who were married onAugust 1849, were forced by financial constraints to emigrate to Victoria, Australia in 1852 to make their living. The family moved back unsuccessfully to England in 1860 before then relocating first to Brisbane and then to Sydney.
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