Alfred Hensman

Alfred Peach Hensman (12 May 1834 – 5 October 1902) was a politician and Attorney-General of Western Australia.

He entered at the Middle Temple on 29 May 1852; and was called to the bar on 26 January 1858.

He was a revising barrister and author of a "Handbook of the Constitution.

"[2] In 1883 he was appointed Attorney-General of Western Australia with a seat in the Executive and Legislative Councils.

He resigned in 1886 owing to a dispute with the Governor, Sir Frederick Napier Broome, but still resided in Western Australia, and in 1892 was appointed the third judge of the Supreme Court.