George Bowen Simpson

Sir George Bowen Simpson QC (22 May 1838 – 7 September 1915) was a politician and judge in New South Wales, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

[1] Simpson practised at the New South Wales bar, to which he was admitted in November 1858.

[1] He was nominated to the Legislative Council in December 1885, and was Attorney-General and Representative of the Government in the Legislative Council in the fifth Robertson ministry from that date till February 1886.

[2] Simpson resigned from the Legislative Council as he had been appointed a judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court on 18 December 1894.

Simpson was knighted in 1909 and acted as chief justice for a year after Sir Frederick Matthew Darley retired until January 1910 and twice acted as governor.