lament for lost footnotes in legal history
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Keynote address by Professor Rosalind Croucher* on 12 December 2011 at the 30th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand law and history society—"Public Law: Private Lives"TRANSCRIPT
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A LAMENT FOR LOST FOOTNOTES IN LEGAL HISTORY
Professor Rosalind F Croucher
FOOTNOTE ONE
‘Behind this case there lies quite a story’
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Colonel A D Wintle
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Colonel A D Wintle
FOOTNOTE TWO
‘The judge had been committed to a lunatic asylum’
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John Fletcher Hargrave, a1335001 Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
John Fletcher Hargrave
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Ann Hargrave
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Powerhouse Museum,SydneyP2903-9/17
Colney Hatch, Middlesex
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Colney Hatch, Middlesex
Artist unknown, Australian school Date c1889
Sir Alfred Stephen
‘It was a clever and strategic political compromise’
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FOOTNOTE THREE
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The 1890s
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The 1890s
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National Council of Women
17 National Council of Women, Christchurch, 1896, Reference Number: 1/2-041798-F, National Library of New Zealand,
Sir Robert and Lady Anna Stout
18 Sir Robert and Lady Anna Stout in the photograph used for their 1924 Christmas card, ca 1924, Reference Number: 1/2-147835-F, National Library of New Zealand, http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=3263
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Sir Robert and Lady Anna Stout
Portrait of Robert Stout, 1885, Anna Patterson Stout, circa 1888 Reference Number: 1/2-098553-F Reference Number: 1/2-002687-F. Object #15982 National Library of New Zealand
Robert McNab
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Alexander Turnbull Library, SP Andrew Collection (PAColl-3739)Reference: 1/1-014360; G. Photograph by Stanley P. Andrew
‘The Act was backdated’
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FOOTNOTE FOUR
John Norton
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John Norton, Editor of The Truth Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Lala Fisher - papers, 1895-1981, MLMSS 6432
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John Norton
Image from the Randwick City Library and Information Service
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John Norton
Images from the Randwick City Library and Information Service
Ezra Norton
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‘He was a second son’
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FOOTNOTE FIVE
Peter John Locke King
by John & Charles Watkins
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Hang on to your footnotes …They’re special!
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