Justices of the High Court of Australia

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: Edmund Barton, Murray Gleeson, Lionel Murphy, List of Justices of the High Court of Australia, Isaac Isaacs, Michael Kirby, H. V. Evatt, Ian Callinan, Mary Gaudron, Samuel Griffith, Owen Dixon, Harry Gibbs, Ronald Wilson, Ninian Stephen, Garfield Barwick, H. B. Higgins, Albert Piddington, John Latham, Susan Kiefel, William Gummow, John Toohey, Robert French, Anthony Mason, Charles Powers, Adrian Knox, Gerard Brennan, Wilfred Fullagar, William Deane, Edward McTiernan, Frank Kitto, George Rich, William Webb, List of Justices of the High Court of Australia by time in office, Cyril Walsh, Victor Windeyer, Richard O'Connor, Alan Taylor, Frank Gavan Duffy, Virginia Bell, Kenneth Jacobs, Susan Crennan, Hayden Starke, Michael McHugh, Kenneth Hayne, Daryl Dawson, Dyson Heydon, William Owen, Douglas Menzies, Keith Aickin, Dudley Williams. Excerpt: Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 - 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history was his management of the federation movement through the 1890s. Elected at the inaugural 1901 federal election, Barton resigned from the position of Prime Minister of Australia in 1903 and became a judge of Australia's High Court. Barton aged 17He was born in the suburb of Glebe, the ninth child of William Barton, a stockbroker, and Mary Louise Barton. He was educated at Fort Street High School and Sydney Grammar School, where he was twice dux and School Captain and met his life-long friend and later fellow Justice of the High Court of Australia, Richard O'Connor. He graduated with first class honours and the University Medal in classics from the University of Sydney, where he also demonstrated considerable skill at batting (but not in fielding) in cricket. Barton became a barrister in 1871. On a cricket trip to Newcastle in 1870, he met Jane Mason Ross, whom he married in 1877. In 1879, Barton umpired a cricket game at Sydney Cricket Ground between New South Wales and an English touring side captained by Lord Harris. After a controversial decision by Barton's colleague George Coulthard against the home side, the crowd spilled onto the pitch and assaulted some of the English players, leading to international cricket's first riot. The publicity that attended the young Barton's presence of mind in defusing that situation reputedly helped him take his first step towards becoming Australia's first prime minister, winning a state lower house seat later that year. In 1876 Barton stood for the Legislative Assembly in the poll of the graduates of the University of Sydney (who were required to wear gowns for the occasion), but was beaten by William Charles Windeyer 49 votes to 43. He was defeated again for the same seat in 1877, bu