John Laskey Woolcock (7 November 1862–18 January 1929), barrister and supreme court judge, Queensland. Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat Year 1862 was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting on Monday Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern corner of the mainland continent

Woolcock was the son of the Rev. William Woolcock, a Bible Christian missionary, and Elizabeth nee White, was born in Truro, Cornwall, England. Truro (ˈtruːrəʊ Truru is a city in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, and is the centre for administration leisure Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland He came to Queensland with his father in 1866, and was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School. Brisbane Grammar School (BGS is an independent, Non-denominational, day and Boarding school for boys located in Spring Hill Having won a Queensland exhibition scholarship he went to the University of Sydney and graduated B. The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia A. in 1883. He had a brilliant course and won the gold medal for English verse, the Wentworth medal for an English essay, the George Allen and Renwick scholarships, and the Belmore medal for agricultural chemistry. Returning to Queensland he qualified as a barrister and was admitted to the Queensland bar on 6 December 1887. Events 1060 - Béla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary 1240 - Mongol invasion of Rus: Kiev Year 1887 ( MDCCCLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common He had in the meantime been private secretary to Sir Samuel Griffith, and in that capacity had attended the colonial convention at Sydney in 1883, the federal council at Hobart in 1885, and the Imperial conference at London in 1887. Sir Samuel Walter Griffith GCMG, ( 21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian politician Premier of Queensland In April 1899 he was appointed Queensland parliamentary draftsman with the right to continue his private practice, which was already a large one, and in 1910 he did a valuable piece of work when he consolidated the Queensland statutes. In December 1926, with the general approval of the profession, he was appointed a judge of the supreme court and began his duties in February 1927. He proved to be an able and hard-working judge, but died suddenly on 18 January 1929. Events 350 - Generallus Magnentius deposes Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He married Miss Harper and subsequently Miss Ida Withrington, who survived him with one son and one daughter of the first marriage and one son and one daughter of the second.

Woolcock was a man of high ideals, was studious and widely read, and had a great capacity for work. He wrote a good deal on legal questions such as the liquor act, the local authority act and Friendly Societies law, and was responsible for annotated issues of the justices' act and the health act. He also wrote detective stories and verse some of which appeared in the Queensland press; an example is included in A Book of Queensland Verse. He was a force in all educational matters and exercised much influence on them in Queensland. In 1895 with S. W. Brooks he initiated the movement for a public library at Brisbane, became a trustee when the library was established, and a member of the board of advice when it was taken over by the government. He was one of the original members of the university senate and for some years was chairman of its education committee. He was especially interested in his old school, the Brisbane Grammar School, of which he became a trustee in 1889, and chairman of trustees from 1906 until his death. Under his will £100 was bequeathed to the University of Queensland to found the Gertrude-Mary Woolcock memorial prize for proficiency in Greek. The University of Queensland (UQ is one of Australia's premier learning and research institutions Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly

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• Serle, Percival (1949). Circa (often abbreviated c, ca, ca or cca and sometimes Italicized to show it is Latin) means "about" "Woolcock, John Laskey". Dictionary of Australian Biography. The Dictionary of Australian Biography, published in 1949, is a reference work by Percival Serle containing information on notable people associated with Sydney: Angus and Robertson.  
• W. Ross Johnston, 'John Laskey (1861-1929)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 12, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp 570-571

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