NSW Senior Counsel Appointments

Prior to 1993 silks were referred to as QC or KC (KC from 1901-1952) depending on the reigning sovereign - they commenced being referred to as SC on and from 1993. Please note that formal titles and/or post nominals that may have been held by an individual on their appointment as a silk have been omitted.

Note: An individual is not listed here if it is know he/she was appointed silk in another jurisdiction prior to taking silk status in NSW where this is known.

Name	Date of appointment	External links
Owen, William Francis Langer	1935	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Crawford, Thomas Simpson	1935	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Evatt, Clive Raleigh	1935	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Fuller, Bryan Cecil	1938	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Clancy, Brian Patrick	1938	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Cassidy, Jack Evelyn	1938	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Herron, Leslie James	1939	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Newell, F J Kingsley	1940	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Treatt, Vernon Haddon	1940	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Miller, Eric Stanislaus Joseph	1940	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Wallace, Gordon	1940	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Barwick, Garfield Edward John	1941	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Dwyer, Francis Aloysius	1941	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Shand, John Wentworth	1942	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Kitto, Frank Walters	1942	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Sugerman, Bernard	1943	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Taylor, Alan Russell	1943	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Badham, Lennard Campbell	1944	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Ferguson, Keith Aubrey	1944	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Webb, Sydney George	1944	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
McKell, William John	1945	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
McClemens, John Henry	1945	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Wilson, John Bowie	1946	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Lloyd, Alan Stredwick	1946	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Rainbow, Alfred Ernest	1946	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Dignam, William John	1946	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Hardie, Martin Francis	1947	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Jenkyn, Norman Alexander	1947	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Rooney, Charles Vincent	1948	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Holmes, John Dashwood	1948	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Stuckey, Geoffrey Philip	1949	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Windeyer, (William John) Victor	1949	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Myers, Frederick George	1949	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Beale, Howard	1950	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Kinkead, James John Benedict	1950	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Moverley, Arthur John	1950	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
McLelland, Charles	1950	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Isaacs, Simon	1950	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Ashburner, Richard	1951
Richardson, Athol Railton	1951
Maguire, Hugh	1951
Smyth, John William	1951
Martin, Clarence Edward	1952
Amsberg, George Frederick	1952
Snelling, Harold Alfred Rush	1952
McIntosh, Noel Desmond	1952	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Louat, Frank Rutledge	1952
Clegg, Eric	1952
Macfarlan, Bruce Panton	1952
Asprey, Kenneth William	1952

Note for interest

William Charles Wentworth, admitted in 1824 with Robert Wardell as foundation barristers in the Supreme Court of New South Wales, was accorded the distinction of wearing a silk gown in February 1835 - the first in private practice to be so recognised (Sydney Gazette, 12 February 1835). That was a 'patent of precedence' but did not entitle him to use the term 'King's Counsel'. Senior law officers customarily wore silk gowns in court in the early decades of the Supreme Court.