Patrick Real
ca. 17 March 1846 — 10 June 1928
The Honourable Patrick Real (7A‑153‑7)
Born Pallasgreen, near Limerick Ireland on 17 March 1846 or 1847 to James Real and Ellen Donegan. The family migrated to Moreton Bay on the typhus-plagued voyage of the Emigrant in 1850 with his father dying from the disease. Young Patrick left school at the age of 12 to commence a carpentry apprenticeship to support his family and was employed at the Ipswich railway workshops before leaving his trade at the age of 22 to study law. Following a distinguished career as a barrister, he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1890 and Senior Puisne Judge in 1903. He died at his home Eulalia at Norman Park on 10 June 1928.
Honorable Judge Patrick Real - State Library of Queensland.