Sir Stanley Charles Burbury, (3 December 1909 – 24 April 1995) was an Australian jurist. He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, and the first Australian-born person appointed as

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, serving from 1973 to 1982.

Biography

Stanley Burbury was born on 3 December 1909 in

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, Western Australia. He had a distinguished career in law in

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, culminating in becoming Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Burbury was appointed

in 1973, the first Australian to hold the office. He was also National President of the

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. Burbury died on 24 April 1995 at

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, Tasmania.

Honours

Burbury was created a

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(KBE) in the 1958 New Years Honours. On 20 April 1977, during the 1977 Royal Visit,

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made Burbury a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO). On 28 August 1981 Burbury was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).

Legacy

The impoundment that was created by

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on the King River on the

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of Tasmania, is called

Lake Burbury Lake Burbury is a man-made water reservoir created by the Crotty Dam inundating the upper King River valley that lies east of the West Coast Range. Discharge from the reservoir feeds the John Butters Hydroelectric Power Station, owned and op ...

. The

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has a lecture theatre named after Stanley Burbury. Burbury Close, a street in Barton in the Australian Capital Territory is named after Stanley Burbury.

References

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