John Warrington Rogers (1822 – 10 February 1906),[1] MA QC, was a lawyer, member of parliament for the colony of Tasmania and judge of the County Court of Victoria.
Rogers was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Launceston on 8 September 1856 and was Solicitor-General in the first Ministry formed under responsible government, he resigned on 16 November 1857.
[4] Rogers was temporarily reappointed on 29 January 1878, but to different counties, those previously held by Charles Skinner.
[5] His reappointment was challenged in the Supreme Court on the basis that the judges had not validly been removed.
[6] The government refused to give County Court judges security of tenure and Rogers resigned from 29 June 1878,[7] on a pension.