In 1839 Price was appointed muster master of convicts and stipendiary magistrate. The case was heard by a stipendiary magistrate. This was the origin of the modern stipendiary magistrate (district judge). Her father was Robert Brown, the first Aboriginal stipendiary magistrate. He then served as a stipendiary magistrate in Jamaica until 1855. He returned to South Australia in 1976 and became a stipendiary magistrate. He served as a stipendiary magistrate in Drammen from 1862 until 1874. He was appointed Chief Stipendiary Magistrate in 1971. The High Bailiff is the head stipendiary magistrate. He later became a Stipendiary Magistrate in Pomeroon. The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 will abolish the office of stipendiary magistrate. In February 1874 he was appointed as district stipendiary magistrate in Nedre Telemark. Pryor was named a stipendiary magistrate for Halifax in 1867. In 1891 he also became a district stipendiary magistrate in Lofoten. The High Bailiff is the head stipendiary magistrate in the Isle of Man.