Virgil Power
2 August 1849 — 2 June 1914
The Honourable Virgil Power (7A‑103‑24)
Virgil Power (1849-1914) was born in Brisbane, the son of Michael Power, auctioneer and commission agent, and his wife Anna Marie (née Connolly). Educated in Sydney and Ireland, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with honours from Trinity College, Dublin in 1871. He was admitted as a barrister of the Middle Temple, London and the King's Inn, Dublin in 1873 before returning to Queensland where he was admitted as a barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland on 26 April 1875. He commenced a period of 20 years in practice at the private bar, holding a succession of appointments as Crown Prosecutor. In 1895 he was the first Queensland-born judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland as well as the first judge to be appointed to the position of Central judge, based at Rockhampton.
Justice Virgil Power - State Library of Queensland