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Charles Hamilton Bromby
1843–1904
A Tasmanian lawyer, politician, and occasional writer, he moved between public life and the page with ease. His background in law and colonial government gives his work a distinctly Victorian sense of order, debate, and character.
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Alkibiades, a tale of the Great Athenian War
by Charles Hamilton Bromby
About the author
Born in Cheltenham, England, on July 17, 1843, Charles Hamilton Bromby was educated at Cheltenham College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He later trained in law at the Inner Temple and went on to build a career that connected Britain and colonial Tasmania.
Bromby became a barrister and entered public life in Tasmania, where he served in the House of Assembly and later as Attorney-General. Reference works on Australasian biography and parliamentary history describe him as the son of Charles Henry Bromby, Bishop of Tasmania, and place him firmly in the legal and political world of the late nineteenth century.
He is remembered less as a full-time literary figure than as a cultivated colonial professional whose writing grew out of a life in law, government, and public argument. He died in England on July 24, 1904.