Thomas Charles Harwood
(1825-1912)

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• Thomas Charles Harwood
• Arrangement of material
• About the Geelong Lawyers' Collection
• Lawyers and law associations in the collection

Thomas Charles Harwood by Vivian Hill
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T.C. Harwood, solicitor and member of the Victorian Parliament (1899-1912) was an early arrival among Geelong Lawyers.  He came in 1850, already qualified, having been admitted to the various English Courts in 1846.  The original certificates are the oldest documents held in the Geelong Lawyers collection.  He would have seen many changes in Victoria in his lifetime, the discovery of gold in 1852, the boom period of the 1880's, the economic collapse of the 1890's and Federation of the Colonies in 1901.

Harwood went into business on arrival and over his long life in the law entered into various partnerships.  Copies of some of those partnership deeds are also held in the Geelong Lawyers collection as is the deed of his appointment as solicitor for the Geelong City Council.   In 1900 the partnership of Harwood and Pincott took over the older firm of Taylor Buckland and Gates after the Geelong principal of that firm was arrested for forgery and uttering documents as a trustee.  Harwood and Pincott expanded as a well respected firm.  The name Harwood is currently part of the title of the firm Harwood Andrews.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Thomas Charles Harwood archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Harwoo Hil/Tch on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order.  

Date	Title	Item no.
5/6/1846	Certificate of examiners [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH1
9/6/1846	Admission certificate.  Court of Queens Bench [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH2
9/6/1846	Admission certificate.  Court of Exchequer [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH3
9/6/1846	Inrollment certificate.  Court of Common Pleas [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH4
10/6/1846	Admission certificate.  High Court of Chancery [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH5
22/7/1846	Admission certificate.  Court of Chancery [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH6
1907	Portrait [Click on image to enlarge it.]	TH7
30/9/1912	Obituary.  Geelong Advertiser	TH8
13/2/1999	Extract. Geelong Advertiser re land still in the name of T.C. Harwood	TH11
7/2001	Biography by Vivian Hill	TH14
7/2001	2 photographs of "Hawthorn" the residence of T.C. Harwood	TH15
7/2001	2 Photographs of Christ Church, cnr Moorabool & McKennon Streets,  Geelong where T.C. Harwood was a vestryman	TH16
30/8/2003	Geelong Advertiser cutting from "150 years ago" re Mr. Harwood appearing for 2 runaway prisoners	TH17
	Wallet which originally contained certificates TH1-TH5	TH9
	4 photographs of certificates and their negatives	TH10
	Photograph of T.C. Harwood's grave and that of his wife Mary Ann Audrey Harwood	TH12
	Photograph of grave of their children, Joseph Charles, Walter Arthur, Blanche Agnes, Charlotte Emma and Edward Sydney	TH13

Additional note:

• Charles Harwood is also mentioned in the following archive boxes:
  
  Harwood and Pincott

- re. partnership agreement with Pincott, Douglass, Griffiths, Wilson, Harwood, 14/5/09.
- summary history of Harwood & Pincott, by R. Annois.
- documents re. purchase of practice of Taylor Buckland and Gates, 19/4/1899.
- appointment as solicitor for Geelong City Council 2/9/1869.
- letters from Town Clerk, 1/9/1869, 3/9/1869. 

Frederic R. Pincott

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