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Law of Limited Liability in commercial partnerships. He also 

 obtained the abolition of public executions by an Act now copied 

 in the other colonies, an amelioration which he hoped would lead 

 to abolition of capital punishment, to which he was opposed from 



early conviction There are few of our educational 



or charitable institutions in the organisation of which Dr. Douglass 

 has not a distinguished part. The last visit he paid us was to 

 enlist sympathy in a project for taking better care of the blind. 

 His health, however, totally failed; his work was done." 



Judge Field (1786-1816). Barron Field was the son of 

 Henry Field, a surgeon to Christ's Hospital, and was born 

 on the 23rd of October, 1786. He was educated as a 

 barrister, and was called to the Inner Temple on the 23rd 

 of June, 1814. About this period, he devoted himself to 

 literature, compiled an analysis of Blackstone's "Commen- 

 taries," and was theatrical critic to the London " Times." 

 He was an intimate friend of Charles Lamb, who introduced 

 him to the select literary coterie then in London. Finding 

 that the pursuit of literature was unremunerative, he 

 accepted a commission, bearing date 14th May, 1816, as 

 judge of the supreme court in New South Wales. He 

 arrived in the colony on the 24th of February, 1817. His 

 tenure of office was marred by his participation in party 

 strife. He left the colony on the 4th of February, 1824, 

 and was subsequently appointed judge at Gibraltar. He 

 died on the 11th of April, 1846. Whilst resident in the 

 colony, he wrote the " First Fruits of Australian Poetry," 

 published in 1819. In 1825, under his editorship, a volume, 

 entitled "Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales by 

 various hands'" was published. He subsequently con- 

 tributed many articles to magazines. His prose was con- 

 sidered good, but his verse very poor. 1 



1 Hist. Rec. of Australia, Series I, Vol. ix, 866. 



