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
Piddington, Albert Bathurst	1913	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Innes, Reginald Heath Long	1916	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Windeyer, Richard	1917	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Lingen, John Taylor	1918	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Mack, Sidney	1918	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Broomfield, Reginald C	1919	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
James, Augustus George Frederick	1919	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Maughan, David	1919	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Brissenden, Edwin Mayhew	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Thomson, Alexander	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Flannery, George Ernest	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Holman, William Arthur	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Coyle, William Thomas	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Mocatta, William Hugh	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Watt, Andrew Robert James	1920	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Coghlan, Charles Augustus	1921	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Bethune, Francis John	1922	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Peden, John Beverley	1922	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Teece, (Richard) Clive	1922	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Bavin, Thomas Rainsford	1924	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Boyce, Francis Stewart	1924	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Weigall, Cecil Edward	1925	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Feez, Arthur Herman Henry Milford	1925	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Mitchell, Ernest Meyer	1925	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Curtis, William John	1925	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Hammond, John Harold	1926	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Davidson, Colin George Watt	1926	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Browne, Joseph Alexander	1926	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Rogers, Percival Halse	1926	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Monahan, William Willis	1927	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Russell, Francis Alfred Allison	1927	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Bonney, Reginald Schofield	1927	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Jordan, Frederick Richard	1928	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Manning, Henry Edward	1928	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Stephen, Edward Milner	1928	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Markell, Horace Francis	1928	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Sheridan, John Patrick Garvan	1929	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Maxwell, Allan Victor	1929	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
McKean, Leslie John	1929	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Evatt, Herbert Vere	1929	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Garran, Robert Randolph	1932	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Abrahams, Leonard Sydney	1932	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Weston, Claude Alfred	1934	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Mason, Harold Harvey	1934	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Pitt, Arthur Gladstone Matcham	1934	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Hardwick, Charles Aubrey	1934	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Bradley, William James	1934	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Williams, Dudley	1935	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Dovey, Wilfred Robert	1935	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales
Spender, Percy Claude	1935	State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales

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.