Portrait of The Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Premier of. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (21 June 1845 - 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. He also served a term as Chief Justice of Queensland and two terms as Premier of Queensland and played a key role in the drafting of the Australian constitution. Griffith was born in Wales, arriving in the Colony of Queensland at the age of eight. He attended the University of Sydney and was called to the bar in 1867. He was elected to the Queensla
Portrait of The Honourable Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, Premier of. Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (21 June 1845 - 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919. He also served a term as Chief Justice of Queensland and two terms as Premier of Queensland and played a key role in the drafting of the Australian constitution. Griffith was born in Wales, arriving in the Colony of Queensland at the age of eight. He attended the University of Sydney and was called to the bar in 1867. He was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1872 and served as Attorney-General from 1874 to 1878, subsequently becoming the leader of the parliament's liberal faction. Griffith's terms as premier ran from 1883 to 1888 and from 1890 to 1893. He led the Australian delegation to the 1887 Colonial Conference and took a keen interest in external affairs. Domestically, he had a reputation as a radical and was initially seen as an ally of the labour movement, but this changed after his government's intervention in the 1891 shearers' strike. In 1893 Griffith retired from politics to head the Supreme Court of Queensland. He was frequently asked to assist in drafting legislation, and the Queensland criminal code - the first in Australia - was mostly his creation. Griffith was an ardent federationist, and with Andrew Inglis Clark wrote the draft constitution that was presented to the 1891 constitutional convention. Many of his contributions were preserved in the final constitution enacted in 1900. Description source: WikipediaSamuel_Griffith )
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