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
Cahalan, Edward Bernard	1952
Stephen, Frank Carter	1952	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Sheahan, William Francis	1953
Loxton, Merlin Forster	1953
Chambers, Rex	1953	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Taylor, Robert Lindsay	1953
Bowen, Nigel Hubert	1953
Manning, James Kenneth	1953
Pile, Marcel Emile	1953
Kerr, John Robert	1953
Meares, Charles Leycester Devenish	1954
Furnell, Lyn Cuthbert	1954
Smith, Robert Charles	1954
Kerrigan, Alan Bevly	1954
Kidston, Roderick Robert	1955	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Healy, Michael Desmond	1955
Larkins, Antony	1955
Knight, William James	1955
Goran, Alfred Joseph	1955
Newton, Russell Jack Miller	1955
Evans, John Dudley	1955
Else-Mitchell, Rae	1955
Bridge, Alan Bruce Keith Ian	1955
Moffitt, Athol Randolph	1956
Woodward, Philip Morgan	1956
St John, Edward Henry	1956
Langsworth, Christian Carruthers	1957
Reynolds, Raymond George	1958
Begg, Colin Elly	1958
Jacobs, Kenneth Sydney	1958
Shannon, Carl	1959
Hicks, David Stuart	1959
Nagle, John Flood	1959
Staff, Douglas Alger	1959
Riley, Bernard Blomfield	1960
Allen, Phillip Harrison	1960
Ash, William Percy	1960
Byers, Maurice Hearne	1960
Selby, David Mayer	1960
Vizzard, Frederick William	1960
Head, Phillip Lyburn	1960
Sullivan, Gregory Thomas Aloysius	1960
Toose, Paul Burcher	1960
Rath, Arthur Francis	1960
Hope, Robert Marsden	1960
Murphy, Lionel Keith	1960
Mahoney, Dennis Leslie	1960
Davoren, John Joseph	1960
Cohen, Alroy Maitland	1961
Little, Edy	1961

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.