Police Magistrate, District of Moreton Bay, New South Wales
In office 1 January 1843[1] – 8 April 1853[1]
Appointed by
Sir George Gipps
Preceded by
Gilbert Elliot[2]
Succeeded by
None; position renamed Police Magistrate, Brisbane[1]
Government Resident, District of Moreton Bay, New South Wales
In office 8 April 1853[2] – 1858[2]
Appointed by
Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy
Preceded by
None[2]
Succeeded by
Frederick Rawkins[2]
Personal details
Born
(1798-11-21)21 November 1798 Leith, Scotland
Died
6 January 1864(1864-01-06) (aged 65) Biarritz, France
Resting place
churchyard of St Jean de Luz[3]
Military service
Branch/service
Royal Navy
Years of service
1812 – 1841
Rank
Captain
Commands
HMS Beagle
John Clements Wickham (21 November 1798 – 6 January 1864) was a Scottish explorer, naval officer, magistrate and administrator. He was first lieutenant on HMS Beagle during its second survey mission, 1831–1836, under captain Robert FitzRoy. The young naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin was a supernumerary on the ship, and his journal was published as The Voyage of the Beagle. After that expedition, Wickham was promoted to Commander and made captain of the Beagle on its third voyage, from 1837 and conducted various maritime expeditions and hydrographic surveys along the Australian coastline.[4]
In 1843, after his retirement from the Royal Navy, Wickham was made Police Magistrate and, later, Government Resident of the Moreton Bay District, in the Colony of New South Wales (NSW). Wickham retired in 1859, when the Moreton Bay District was separated from NSW, forming basis of the Colony of Queensland. When the Queensland and NSW governments disagreed over which was responsible for his pension, Wickham moved to France, where he died.[4]
^ abcQueensland State Archives Agency ID2700, Police Magistrate, Moreton Bay Archived 20 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The State of Queensland (Department of Public Works) 2004–2006 accessed 9 September 2011.
^ abcdeQueensland State Archives Agency ID2193, Government Resident, Moreton Bay Archived 20 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine, The State of Queensland (Department of Public Works) 2004–2006 accessed 9 September 2011.
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