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Lincoln's Inn in 1847. He shortly afterwards left for South
Australia, following his parents, who had emigrated in 1839. He immediately began practising and it was not long before he was taken into partnership with the Charles Fenn, one of the largest practices in Adelaide. The partnership was dissolved, and Mr. Wearing was appointed Crown Solicitor, but was able to continue in private practice.
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Christopher Hammond Wearing (ca.1785 â 29 February 1860) and his wife Elizabeth Augusta, nÊe Soulsby. He was educated at Trinity College, or St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of B.A. He studied law, and was called to the bar at
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Q.C., but he died three years later on 16 September 1878.
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