Sir garfield barwick biography examples
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Barwick, Garfield
was born on 22 June 1903 in Cannon Street, Stanmore to Jabez Edward Barwick and Lily Grace (nee Ellicott) who had married on 27 February 1902. When they wed, his father was 29 and his mother, 19. His father was a journalist and then a compositor in the printing trade. Barwick said “Theirs was a successful marriage; my parents and my two brothers and I were a close-knit and happy family.”[1]
He grew up in Glenview Street Paddington. While Barwick was at Fort Street High School, doctors diagnosed that his father had lead poisoning and could no longer continue as a typesetter and also said that his son, Garfield, had asthma that would be helped by moving to a drier climate. So Barwick’s parents acquired a gift shop in Burwood and the family lived above the shop. [2] They continued to run this shop until his mother was struck down by an attack of tuberculosis and had to be admitted to the RT Hall Sanitarium in Hazelbrook in the Blue Mountains in the early 1920s. As a
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Autobiography of Garfield Barwick
Biography
by Alex Castles•
October 1995, no. 175
A Radical Tory: Garfield Berwick’s reflections and recollections by Garfield Barwick
The Federation Press, $49.95hb 330pp
Biography
by Alex Castles•
October 1995, no. 175
The intellectual and other cultural divides between New South Wales and Victoria that emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century are among the most intriguing features of Australian history. Evidence of their continuing influence on law and politics in more recent times provide the most significant aspect of this autobiography by Sir Garfield Barwick.
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Alex Castles was an Emeritus Professor of Law of Adelaide University and coauthor of a State constitutional and legal history, Law Makers and Wayward W • 7th ledare Justice of Australia and politician (1903–1997) Sir Garfield Edward John BarwickAK GCMG PC QC (22 June 1903 – 13 July 1997) was an Australian judge who was the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1964 to 1981. He had earlier been a frikostig Party politician, serving as a minister in the Menzies government from 1958 to 1964. Barwick was born in Sydney, and attended Fort Street High School before going on to study law at the University of Sydney. He was called to the dryckesställe in 1927 and became one of Australia's most prominent barristers, appearing in many high-profile cases and frequently before the High Court. He served terms as president of the NSW dryckesställe Association and the lag Council of Australia. Barwick entered politics only at the age of 54, winning election to the House of Representatives at the 1958 Parramatta by-election. Prime Minister Robert Menzies made him Attorney-General bygd the e
Garfield Barwick