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The Rt Hon Sir Owen Dixon (1886–1972) was a Justice of the High Court from 4 February 1929 to 17 April 1952, and Chief Justice from 18 April 1952 to 13 April 1964. He had been appointed an acting Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1926. After …

This portrait of the inaugural Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Rt Hon Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (1845–1920), is a copy of the original by Godfrey Rivers which hangs in the Supreme Court of Queensland. Sir Samuel Griffith served as Chief …