FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF AUSTRALIA

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 10

FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF AUSTRALIA

(Beceived 27th April, 2 p.m.)

SYDNEY, This, Day.

The death occurred this morning of Sir Adrian, Knox, late Chief Justic* of Australia, at the age of 69.

The Eight Hon. Sir Adrian .Knox was a son of the late Sir Edward knox, , and was born in Sydney in 1863. He received his early education at Harrow and Cambridge. He took his LL.B. at Cambridge, and was admitted to the Inner Temple. He did not, however, practice' in London, and returned to> Sydney in 1886, -when he was called to the Bar. In 1906 he was appointed K.C. Mr. Justice Knox then, became interested in politics, but it was apparently only a fleeting fancy, for, he retired after four years, during which period (1894-98) he held the Wqollahra, seat in the ; Legislative Assembly of New South-Wales. For over twentyfive years Mr. Justice Knox was prominently associated with- the Australia* Jockey Club, having occupied the position of chairman for a number of years. Before the war he raced his own horses, Vavasour winning the Sydney Cup for him in 1910, but . during the years of ( the war, for patriotic reasons, he withdrew from active rae- > ing. His keen interest in the Bed Cross took very'tangible form, during.tho early days of the war, when, at great personal sacrifice—rhe was leaving behind the most lucrative practice ia - Australia—he went out as ' Commissioner to Egypt with Mr. Norman. Brookes in order to.try and smooth tha way for the Bed Cross. On more than. • one occasion Sir Adrian refused a seat on the Supreme Court Bench, but eventually, in 1919, he accepted the Chief Justiceship. In 1930 he retired in rather peculiar circumstances, having inherited a large sum of money from, his close friend, Mr. John Brown, tha wealthy coal-owner and ship-owner of Newcastle.