Rae Else-Mitchell
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Rae Else-Mitchell CMG QC LLB Dlitt FRAHS FIPAA FRAIPA FAIUS HonFAIV HonFPIA HonFIMM |
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| Judge, Supreme Court of New South Wales | |
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In office 8 September 1958 – 1 October 1974 |
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| Chairperson, Commonwealth Grants Commission | |
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In office October 1974 – 1 July 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Leslie Melville |
| Succeeded by | C Richard (Dick) Rye |
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20 September 1914 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Died | 28 June 2006 (aged 91) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory |
| Profession | Judge, administrator |
Rae Else-Mitchell CMG QC LLB Dlitt FRAHS FIPAA FRAIPA FAIUS HonFAIV HonFPIA HonFIMM (20 September 1914—29 June 2006) was an Australian jurist, royal commissioner, historian and legal scholar. He was an active member and office bearer in a number of community organisations concerned with history, the arts, libraries, medicine, education, financial and public administration, and town planning. His obituary in The Times (London) described him as being "among Australia's cleverest postwar judges and administrators, accomplishing two distinguished careers of almost equal length."
Rae Else-Mitchell was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 20 September 1914, the son of Francis Montague Else-Mitchell and his wife, Pearl Marie née Gregory. His maternal grandfather was noted cricketer, Dave Gregory, whose biography he was later to write for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
He was educated at Artarmon Public School, New South Wales and Middle Park Central School, Victoria. He completed his secondary schooling at Melbourne High School. He matriculated to the University of Sydney (Bachelor of Laws First Class Honours 1936). In 1936 he shared with J R Kerr and J B Robinson the John George Dalley Prize awarded for the most distinguished student graduating in the Faculty of Law.
Else-Mitchell was called to the New South Wales Bar on 16 February 1939 and to the Victorian Bar in 1954. In 1941/42 he was the Assistant Honorary Secretary to the Council of the New South Wales Bar Association. He relinquished his practice during World War II to become Secretary of the Commonwealth Rationing Commission from 1943 to 1945. He returned to practice in 1945, specialising in constitutional law, commercial law and equity. He was counsel for the Commonwealth and New South Wales governments in a number of Privy Council appeals from 1950 to 1956. He was editor of the Australian Law Journal from 1946 to 1958 and a lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney from 1951 to 1958. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1955.
Else-Mitchell was appointed a Judge of the New South Wales Supreme Court on 8 September 1958. He served in the Land and Valuation Court from 1962, initially as an additional Judge from 1 January 1962, as a Deputy Judge on six occasions from 15 March 1965 to 16 August 1972, and finally as a Judge of the Court from 31 July 1972. He retired from both Courts on 1 October 1974.
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