Lionel Murphy
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The Honourable Lionel Murphy QC |
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| Attorney-General of Australia | |
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In office 1972–1975 |
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| Preceded by | Gough Whitlam |
| Succeeded by | Kep Enderby |
| Constituency | Senator for New South Wales |
| Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
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In office 10 February 1975 – 21 October 1986 |
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| Nominated by | Gough Whitlam |
| Preceded by | Sir Douglas Menzies |
| Succeeded by | John Toohey |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 August 1922 Kensington, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 21 October 1986 (aged 64) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Nina Morrow Ingrid Gee (née Grzonkowski) |
Lionel Keith Murphy, QC (30 August 1922 in Kensington, New South Wales – 21 October 1986 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) was an Australian politician and jurist, who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1975 until his death.
Murphy was the youngest of five sons, and sixth of seven children of William (b. Tipperary, Ireland) and Lily Murphy (née Murphy). He was born and grew up in Sydney. Though the Murphy household was Irish Catholic, albeit estranged from the Church, Murphy became a humanist and rationalist.
He was educated at government schools in Sydney's south-eastern suburbs, including Kensington Public School in Kensington, where he was dux after repeating his final year in 1935, and Sydney Boys High School from 1936–40 in the nearby Surry Hills, graduating with A levels in English, Mathematics, and Chemistry and B levels in Physics and French. After completing his secondary education, in 1941, Murphy matriculated to the University of Sydney, though he had not been successful in gaining a university scholarship awarded to the top 100 in the state. In 1945, after initially ordinary scholastic performance and a brief period of consideration of transferring to study a Bachelor of Arts to major in psychology in the Faculty of Arts, Murphy excelled in his final year, graduating from the School of Chemistry, Faculty of Science with a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Organic Chemistry. In 1943, he had commenced working in the chemistry industry, thereby coming under the authority of the wartime Manpower Directorate.
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