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JUDGE COYLE WELCOMED
PRESIDED FOR FIRST TIME
AT QUARTER SESSIONS TO-DAY
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Judge William Thomas Coyle pre
sided over the sitting of the Quarter
Sessions in Broken Hill, for the first
time to-day. Of a pleasing person
ality, Judge Coyle is 59 years of age
having been born in New South
Wales in 1868. He graduated in law
at the Sydney University, and later
went to England where he was ad
mitted to the bar at the Inner Temple
London, in 1896. He practised for
five years at the English bar, and then
returned to his native State. He prac
tised In Sydney for some years, and
in 1920 was appointed Senior Crown
Prosecutor for the State. Late in the
same year he was made a King's
Counsel. He held the position of
Crown Prosecutor until February I of
this year, when he was appointed to
the present position in succession to
Judge Bevan, who retired at the end
of last year. This is not Judge Coyle's
first visit to Broken Hill, he having
been here on two previous occasions.
Once was in 1909 when he appeared
for the miners in an appeal before
Judge Docker, and the other was in
1914 when he appeared as Crown
Prosecutor before Judge Gibson.
Judge Coyle has a family of six,
three sons and three daughters. One
son is in his fifth year of medicine at
the Sydney University. He has won
his blue at the University for Rugby
football. During his time at the
Sydney University Judge Coyle won
his blue for rowing, he having rowed
for the University for three years.
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