Sir Philip Whistler Street (1863 - 1938)

BA
Fellow of Senate: 1915 - 1934
Deputy Chancellor: 1926 - 1928

Sir Philip Whistler Street, chief justice and lieutenant-governor, was born on 9 August 1863 at Victoria Street, Sydney.

Philip was educated at Waverley Hall, Sydney Grammar School and St Paul's College, University of Sydney (BA, 1883). After completing divinity, he turned to law and was admitted to the Bar on 25 August 1886.

He became judge of the Supreme Court on 11 February 1907, judge in bankruptcy and in probate, deputy president of the Court of Arbitration, in 1918 chief judge in Equity and chief justice on 28 January 1925. He was appointed KCMG in 1928, commissioned lieutenant-governor in 1930 and administered the State government three times between 1934 and 1937, retiring on 22 July 1933.

Together with his wife he had many philanthropic and public interests. He was a member of the Senate (1915-34) and Deputy Chancellor (1926-27) of the University of Sydney, and a council-member of Women's College.

Other examples included: chairman of trustees of Sydney Grammar School, a trustee and later chairman of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales and of the Australian Museum, Sydney, and patron in New South Wales of the Victoria League, English-Speaking Union, Japan-Australia Society and the Royal Zoological Society.

Sir Philip died on 11 September 1938 at Liverynga.

[[Information source: Australian Dictionary of Biography]]