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[+] HONOURING OUR PATRON, SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL, VICTOR OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
[+] HONOURING OUR QUEEN, ELIZABETH THE SECOND, ON THE 80TH YEAR OF HER BIRTH (1926 - 2006)
[+] HONOURING OUR KING, SAINT EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, ON THE 1000TH YEAR OF HIS BIRTH (1005 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR HERO, LORD NELSON, ON THE BICENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR (1805 - 2005)
[+] HONOURING OUR SONS, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Chief Warrant Officer Robert Girouard, 46, Royal Canadian Regiment, Nov 27, 2006 (Afstan)
Staff Sergeant Sharron Elliott, 34, Intelligence Corps, Nov 12, 2006 (Iraq)
Private Jacob B. Kovco, 25, Royal Australian Regiment, April 21, 2006
[+] HONOURING OUR VETS ON THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE VICTORIA CROSS (1856 - 2006)
Sunday, January 30, 2005
Griffith
Monarchist Author: David Byers from Australia
Joined on August 1, 2005
Archive of the Author's Works
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845-1920), Australian Politician and Judge; Principal Author of the Constitution of Australia
Premier of Queensland and first Chief Justice of Australia, was born at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, on 21 June 1845 and came to Australia in 1854. Griffith attended Maitland High School and Sydney University (BA hons, 1863; MA, 1870), and was called to the Bar in Brisbane in 1867.
Griffith represented East Moreton (1872-73, Oxley (1873-78) and North Brisbane (1878-93) in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and as Attorney-General in 1874. When Sir Thomas McIlwraith became Premier in 1879 Griffith became a most determined Leader of the Opposition. In November 1883 he succeeded in displacing McIlwraith and was returned as Premier and Colonial Secretary, largely through his opposition to kanaka labour. He was replaced by McIlwraith in June 1888 but in August 1890 again became Premier in a coalition ministry with McIlwraith which lasted until March 1893, when he retired to become Chief Justice of Queensland.
Griffith compiled Queensland's Criminal Code and proposed the Federal Australasian Council which he presided over at various times. He represented Queensland at the Colonial Conference (London, 1887) and the Federal Conference (1890), and became vice-president of the 1891 Convention (under Sir Henry Parkes). He was the main draftsman of the Bill which formed the basis of Australia's constitution.
Griffith served as Lieutenant-Governor (1899-1903) and visited London when the Commonwealth Bill passed through the British Parliament. He became a Privy Councillor in 1901 and was the obvious choice as Chief Justice of Australia when the High Court was established (1903).
Appointed KCMG (1886) and GCMG (1895), he became Vice-President of the Royal Colonial Institute (1909), honorary Doctor of Laws (Queensland 1912, and Wales 1913) and honorary Fellow of the British Academy (1916).
He retired from the High Court in August 1919, and died in Brisbane on 9 August 1920.
Links: Wikipedia; Samuel Griffith Society; The Australian Constitution; Griffith University, Brisbane
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 10:26 p.m. | LINKS |
Monarchist Author: David Byers from Australia
Joined on August 1, 2005
Archive of the Author's Works
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845-1920), Australian Politician and Judge; Principal Author of the Constitution of Australia
Premier of Queensland and first Chief Justice of Australia, was born at Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, on 21 June 1845 and came to Australia in 1854. Griffith attended Maitland High School and Sydney University (BA hons, 1863; MA, 1870), and was called to the Bar in Brisbane in 1867. Griffith represented East Moreton (1872-73, Oxley (1873-78) and North Brisbane (1878-93) in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, and as Attorney-General in 1874. When Sir Thomas McIlwraith became Premier in 1879 Griffith became a most determined Leader of the Opposition. In November 1883 he succeeded in displacing McIlwraith and was returned as Premier and Colonial Secretary, largely through his opposition to kanaka labour. He was replaced by McIlwraith in June 1888 but in August 1890 again became Premier in a coalition ministry with McIlwraith which lasted until March 1893, when he retired to become Chief Justice of Queensland.
Griffith compiled Queensland's Criminal Code and proposed the Federal Australasian Council which he presided over at various times. He represented Queensland at the Colonial Conference (London, 1887) and the Federal Conference (1890), and became vice-president of the 1891 Convention (under Sir Henry Parkes). He was the main draftsman of the Bill which formed the basis of Australia's constitution.
Griffith served as Lieutenant-Governor (1899-1903) and visited London when the Commonwealth Bill passed through the British Parliament. He became a Privy Councillor in 1901 and was the obvious choice as Chief Justice of Australia when the High Court was established (1903).
Appointed KCMG (1886) and GCMG (1895), he became Vice-President of the Royal Colonial Institute (1909), honorary Doctor of Laws (Queensland 1912, and Wales 1913) and honorary Fellow of the British Academy (1916).
He retired from the High Court in August 1919, and died in Brisbane on 9 August 1920.
Links: Wikipedia; Samuel Griffith Society; The Australian Constitution; Griffith University, Brisbane
POSTED BY: The Monarchist AT 10:26 p.m. | LINKS |
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