Thomas Joseph Shuldham O'Halloran

Thomas Joseph Shuldham O'Halloran, SM (27 April 1835 – 9 January 1922) was a magistrate in the colony and State of South Australia, a service of 45 years. At the time of his death he was the oldest Stipendiary Magistrate in Australia. He was a son of Major T. S. O'Halloran and father of T. S. O'Halloran, KC. History O'Halloran was born on April 27, 1835, at Dawlish, Devonshire, the eldest son of Major T. S. O'Halloran, after whom O'Halloran Hill was named, and with a brother and sister came with his parents to South Australia in the Rajasthan, landing at Glenelg in November 1838. His education began at a private school at Magill, then St Peter's College, of which his father was a founder, as one of its earliest students. He found employment first at the Treasury Office on 13 April 1853, then joined the National Bank, in 1871 becoming manager of the Strathalbyn branch. On 1 November 1874 he was appointed Stipendiary Magistrate; he succeeded B. T. Laurie at Mount Gambier, G. W. Hawkes at Gawler, John Varley at Kapunda, McCulloch at Port Pirie. In 1878 he was appointed to Mount Gambier, and shortly after that to Mount Barker. In 1885 he was transferred to Port Elliot. In 1887 he was transferred to Wallaroo, whose jurisdiction extended to Southern Yorke's Peninsula, Port Lincoln and Fowler's Bay in the west to Renmark (where he settled a strike by arbitration) and Morgan. He once calculated that, during his last 10 years at Wallaroo, he travelled about a year, and knew the State better than almost anyone. He retired 30 June 1905. but was appointed in October 1911 to the Port Adelaide and country region as a temporary replacement for T. Gepp.