Joshua Josephson


Joshua Frey Josephson was a judge and politician in colonial New South Wales, Solicitor-General of New South Wales 1868 to 1869.
Josephson was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Jacob Josephson and his wife Emma Wilson, a widow née Moss. Josephson arrived in New South Wales in 1820.
Josephson was elected a member for Braidwood in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on 13 December 1864, a seat he held until 3 September 1869. He was appointed Solicitor-General of New South Wales from 27 October 1868 to 9 September 1869 in the 2nd government of John Robertson. He then became a District Court Judge.
Josephson died in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales on 26 January 1892. He was survived by four sons and eight daughters of his first wife, a daughter of his second wife Katerina Frederica née Schiller, and by his third wife Elizabeth Geraldine, née Brenan.