Henry Cosgrove (judge)

Henry Edward Cosgrove AM QC (9 November 1922 – 22 February 2010) was an Australian judge.

[1] He attended St Virgil's College from 1929 to 1939, graduating dux and with the Dr James Scott Memorial Prize for English Composition.

He graduated in May 1948, and began working as a research officer with the Bureau of Census and Statistics in 1946.

Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1974, he was raised a Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1977.

One of the famous cases Cosgrove sat on was the marathon trial of Randall Askeland who was found guilty of the murder of his wife.