John Thomas Bigge | State Library of New South Wales
John Thomas Bigge

John Thomas Bigge, 1819?
After Thomas Uwins
Glazed ceramic panel
Purchased from Christopher Clarke (Antiques) Ltd, 2009
PM 153

Bigge was an Oxford-educated lawyer and former Chief Justice of Trinidad. He differed markedly in background and ideology from Macquarie and relations between the two men deteriorated. At one stage, Bigge refused all private meetings with the Governor. As these tensions developed, the commissioner gravitated towards John Macarthur and the exclusives.