Henry Winneke
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21st Governor of Victoria | |
In office 1 June 1974 – 28 February 1982 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Preceded by | Sir Rohan Delacombe |
Succeeded by | Sir Brian Murray |
Personal details | |
Born | Group Captain | 20 October 1908
Battles/wars | World War II |
Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Sir Henry Arthur Winneke,
Early life and career
Winneke was born on 20 October 1908 to the descendants of German immigrants to Victoria. His father, Henry Christian Winneke, was a judge of the County Court of Victoria.[1] Winneke was educated at Ballarat Grammar School, Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws in 1929 and a Master of Laws in 1930. He was a hockey player while at university, and was awarded a University Blue as well as playing in an Australian Universities team. From 1930 to 1932, he also held a lieutenant's commission in the Melbourne University Rifles.[2][3] After doing articles at the solicitors firm Gair & Brahe, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria on 1 May 1931 and called to the Victorian Bar on 30 July 1931.[4] He read as a pupil of Wilfred Fullagar, who was later a judge of the High Court of Australia.
Second World War
Following the outbreak of the
Post-war career
Following the end of the Second World War, Winneke left the RAAF returned to practice at the Victorian Bar. He developed a large general practice, and was described by Sir
Chief justice and governor
Winneke was appointed as Chief Justice of Victoria in 1964. According to
Don Chipp said that Winneke had told him in 1971 that the convicted murderer Leith Ratten was innocent. In 1981, when Ratten had yet to be released, Chipp said Winneke denied the conversation had taken place. Later a member of the Supreme Court at the time of Ratten's trial told Tom Molomby that Winneke had wanted to remove the jury from the trial. Such a move would require a belief that the evidence would not support a guilty verdict.[14]
During the 1970s Winneke expressed "undiminished loyalty" to the bilateral relationship between Australia and the U.S..[15]
Personal life
Winneke was married twice, first to Nancy Wilkinson in 1933 by whom he had two sons, John and Michael. Following his first wife's death in 1983, in 1984 he married Ellis Faul, who survived him. His son,
See also
- Judiciary of Australia
- List of Judges of the Supreme Court of Victoria
References
- OCLC 70677943.
- ^ "Australian Military Forces". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 76. 28 August 1930. p. 1768. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Australian Military Forces & Senior Cadets". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 77. 3 November 1932. p. 1449. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- OCLC 70677943.
- ^ "Royal Australian Air Force – Citizen Air Force". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 121. 2 November 1939. p. 2290. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Royal Australian Air Force – Citizen Air Force". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 41. 29 February 1940. p. 510. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ a b "Obituary", [1986] Victorian Reports, pp xi–xii.
- ^ "Appointment – King's Counsel". Victoria Government Gazette. Victorian Government Printer. 30 November 1949. p. 1949:6587.
- ^ "Mr. H. Winneke given state legal post". The Age. 12 December 1951. p. 3. Retrieved 7 February 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Victorian Bar — Oral History Part 12 – Sir Henry Winneke". Vicbar.com.au. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
- ^ The Herald Law Courts Reporter, "No.1 Counsel for the Queen", The Herald, (Saturday, 1 August 1953), p.21.
- ^ a b Appleby, G (28 September 2012). "The Constitutional Role of the Solicitor-General" (PDF). Retrieved 21 January 2019.
- ^ Tait v R [1962] HCA 57, (1962) 108 CLR 620, High Court.
- ISBN 9780855614102.
- ^ Coventry, C. J., "The Eloquence of Robert J Hawke: United States informer, 1973-79," Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67:1 (2021), 79.
Further reading
- Coleman, Robert, Above renown: The biography of Sir Henry Winneke, South Melbourne, MacMillan Australia, 1988.