What is Francis Forbes?
{{Infobox Person | name =Francis Forbes | residence = | other_names = | image =Francis Forbes.jpg | imagesize =200px | caption =Sir Francis Forbes | birth_name = | birth_date =1784 | birth_place =[[Bermuda]] | death_date =November, 1841 | death_place =[[Sydney]], [[Australia]] | death_cause = | known = | occupation = [[Lawyer]], [[Judge]] | title =Chief Justice | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relations = | website = | footnotes = | employer = | height = }} [[Image:Francis Forbes colour.jpg|thumb|right|Francis Forbes (artist unknown)]] '''Sir Francis Forbes''' (1784 – 1841) was the first Chief Justice ([[judge]]) of New South Wales. Before he set up the court system in Australia, people were tried by legal tribunals.<ref name=supreme>{{cite web |url=http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/supreme_court/ll_sc.nsf/pages/SCO_sirforbes |title=Sir Francis Forbes |access-date=2008-12-07 |work=Supreme Court Lawlink |archive-date=2009-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131052612/http://lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/supreme_court/ll_sc.nsf/pages/SCO_sirforbes |url-status=dead }}</ref> The town of [[Forbes, New South Wales]] was named after him. ==Early life== Forbes was born in [[Bermuda]] in 1784. His grandfather, Dr. George Forbes had moved to the Bermudas after the [[Battle of Culloden]].<ref name=adb>{{cite web | last = Currey| first = C.H.| title =Forbes, Sir Francis (1784-1841) | work = Australian Dictionary of Biography| publisher =Melbourne University Press | date =1966| url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010366b.htm | format = htm| access-date = December 7, 2008}}</ref> He went to [[London]] at the age of 19 to study law. He passed the exams and became a lawyer in 1812. He returned to Bermuda but went to back to England 3 years later. In 1816 he was made the first Chief Justice of [[Newfoundland]]. He lived in Canada until 1822.<ref name=aust>{{cite encyclopedia | title =Forbes, Sir Francis | encyclopedia =Australia