Hugh Denis Macrossan
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| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Windsor |
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In office 27 April 1912 – 22 May 1915 |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Herbert McPhail |
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Hugh Denis Macrossan 20 February 1881 Lutwyche, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 23 June 1940 (aged 59) Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia |
| Resting place | Nudgee Cemetery |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Ministerial |
| Spouse(s) | Lydia Cremin Hall (m.1912 d.1922), Gladys Mildred Trenfield (m.1926) |
| Relations | John Macrossan (father), Neal Macrossan (brother), John Macrossan (nephew) |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Barrister, Judge, Chief Justice |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Hugh Denis Macrossan (20 February 1881 – 23 June 1940) was a politician and judge in Queensland, a State of Australia. He was elected as a member of the Queensland Parliament, and was later to become a judge and also the Chief Justice of Queensland. He was the son of a prominent Queensland politician, and he was elected as a member of parliament. He served as a judge from 1926, until his appointment as chief justice in 1940 and his death later that year. He is unique in Queensland history as the shortest serving chief justice, serving only one month, and one of only two chief justice to have a brother and nephew served as chief justice.
Macrossan was born at Lutwyche, now a suburb of Brisbane. His parents, John Murtagh Macrossan and Bridget Macrossan (née Queely), were both Irish émigrés to Australia who had married in Australia. Macrossan's father was a prominent member of the Queensland Parliament. Macrossan was educated at St. Joseph's Nudgee College in Brisbane. He later attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1902. Before embarking on his career in politics and the law, he worked as a teacher in Nudgee for three years.
Macrossan obtained a taste for the law when he worked as an associate for Mr Justice Patrick Real of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1904. He was admitted to the Queensland Bar on 22 October 1907 and practiced as a barrister thereafter. His first foray into politics occurred in 1910. He stood as a Liberal candidate for the Senate in the Australian Parliament in that year. He was not successful and he returned to practice in the law.
On 12 June 1912, he married Lydia Cremin Hall Woodhouse at St Patrick's Church in Sydney. He tried again to enter into politics. He was nominated to stand as a Ministerial candidate for the seat of Windsor in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Queensland Parliament. At that time, the parliament was bicameral. This time he was elected. During his time in politics, he became disillusioned with the parliamentary party system and he urged politicians not to vote along party lines. He had little success in doing this. In the 1915 election he refused to be nominated for his former party. Instead, he ran as an Independent Liberal candidate. He lost his seat in that election to the candidate for the Australian Labor Party.
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