Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - LawJudgesLawyersHistoryJohn Warrington Rogers was born in 1822, the son and grandson of solicitors. He entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in 1844; he was a member of the Middle Temple from June 1843 and was called to the Bar on 20 November 1846. In November 1854, Rogers accepted the position of Attorney-General of Van Dieman's Land. He arrived in Launceston in 1855 and took his seat in the Legislative Council as an official nominee and was admitted to the Tasmanian Bar on 7 August. On 19 December the consolidated posts of solicitor-general, crown solicitor and clerk of the peace. He took up duties in March 1856 but in September won Launceston in the new House of Assembly. He was solicitor-general but resigned after a change of government and settled in Melbourne. In 1858, Rogers was admitted to the Bar in Victoria and was appointed County Court judge and judge of the Court of Mines for the Ballarat District. On 2 July he became a Q.C. and practised at the Victorian Bar. Rogers drafted the constitution of the Ballarat School of Mines, was a member of the University of Melbourne Council, lectured in law (1881-1893) and was appointed to the Royal Commission on education.
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