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John Thomas Bigge (8 March 1780 – 22 December 1843) was an English judge and royal commissioner.
   Bigge was born at Benton House, Northumberland, England, the second son of Thomas Charles Bigge, High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1771. He was educated at Newcastle Grammar School, Westminster School (1795) and in 1797 entered Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1801; M.A., 1804).
   While Bigge was in Australia, there was noticeable friction between himself and Governor Macquarie and he spent much time in the company of the Macarthur's.
   Bigge’s first report was published in June 1822 and his second and third reports in 1823. Elements of Bigge’s reports criticised Governor Macquarie’s administration including his emancipist policy, expenditure on public works and management of convicts. Macquarie answered criticisms to the secretary of state, Lord Bathurst in 1822. Bigge's reports are now viewed as not showing sufficient detachment and although there were many excellent recommendations, there were also trifling recommendations and hyper-critical detail.
   In 1823, many of Bigge’s recommendations from his second report were incorporated into the NSW Judicature Act which legislated to provide for the colony’s government and judicial system. It also provided for a separate administration for Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
   The third report was the most impartial and least contentious. It afforded a generally clear picture of farming and grazing in the Sydney district and west of the Blue Mountains. It didn't sufficiently acknowledge the important developments of the Illawarra district and tended to suggest falsely that agriculture was drooping under Macquarie. Otherwise it was well presented and included useful accounts of the state of revenue, trade and the country's economic position. In 1824, Governor Brisbane approved the sale of crown land in accordance with one of Bigge’s recommendations. Previously only a nominal ‘quit’ rent was required for grants by the crown.
   The establishment of the limits of location resulted from Bigge's recommendations.
   From 1823, Bigge was given a similar appointment to examine the government of the Cape Colony, Mauritius and Ceylon.

Death

The arduousness of travel and climate told heavily on Bigge after he suffered a leg injury in falling from his horse at the Cape, for which, it's reported, he was treated by a doctor who turned out to be not only a quack but a woman posing as a man. In 1829 he'd returned to England for the last time. He continued in poor health and was too indisposed to accept a position to report on clerical establishments in 1832. He never married and lived a solitary life in retirement until his accidental death on 22 December 1843 at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. He was buried as directed by his will 'without ceremony or superfluous expense'.Further Information

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