Patrick Real

Patrick Real (17 March 1846 – 10 June 1928)[1] was a Supreme Court judge in Queensland, a colony and later a state of Australia.

His father died at the Dunwich Quarantine Station, and his mother settled in Ipswich, Queensland, where he was apprenticed to a carpenter.

Subsequently he was employed in the Ipswich railway workshops until, at the age of twenty-one, he formed the idea of becoming a barrister.

In February 1878 he was appointed Crown Prosecutor for the Central District of Queensland and, on the death of Justice Charles Mein in 1890, a Puisne Judge.

He and Anne had four children, three daughters, and a son: Ellen, Mary Josephine, Kathleen, and Edward Thynne.