Samuel Griffith
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The Right Honourable Sir Samuel Griffith GCMG, QC |
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| 9th Premier of Queensland | |
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In office 13 November 1883 – 13 June 1888 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas McIlwraith |
| Succeeded by | Thomas McIlwraith |
| Constituency | North Brisbane |
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In office 12 August 1890 – 27 March 1893 |
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| Preceded by | Boyd Dunlop Morehead |
| Succeeded by | Thomas McIlwraith |
| Constituency | Brisbane North |
| 1st Chief Justice of Australia | |
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In office 5 October 1903 – 17 October 1919 |
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| Nominated by | Alfred Deakin |
| Appointed by | Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote |
| Preceded by | New office |
| Succeeded by | Sir Adrian Knox |
| 14th Treasurer of Queensland | |
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In office 17 August 1887 – 13 June 1888 |
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| Preceded by | James Dickson |
| Succeeded by | Thomas McIlwraith |
| Constituency | North Brisbane |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for East Moreton |
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In office 3 April 1872 – 25 November 1873 Serving with William Hemmant |
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| Preceded by | Robert Travers Atkin |
| Succeeded by | William Fryar |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Oxley |
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In office 25 November 1873 – 14 November 1878 |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Grimes |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for North Brisbane |
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In office 15 November 1878 – 13 June 1888 Serving with Arthur Palmer, William Brookes |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | Abolished |
| Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Brisbane North |
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In office 13 June 1888 – 29 Apr 1893 Serving with Thomas McIlwraith |
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| Preceded by | New seat |
| Succeeded by | John James Kingsbury |
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21 June 1845 Merthyr Tydfil, Wales |
| Died | 9 August 1920 (aged 75) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Resting place | Toowong Cemetery |
| Nationality | Welsh |
| Spouse(s) | Julia Janet Thomson |
| Alma mater | University of Sydney |
| Occupation | Judge, Barrister |
| Religion | Congregational, Anglican |
Sir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG, QC, (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.
Griffith was born in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, the younger son of the Rev. Edward Griffith, a Congregational minister and his wife, Mary, second daughter of Peter Walker. Although of Welsh extraction, his forebears for at least three generations had lived in England. The family migrated to Queensland (then the Moreton Bay district of New South Wales) when Samuel was eight. He was educated at schools in Ipswich, Sydney, Maitland and Brisbane (from 1860), towns where his father was a minister, then at the University of Sydney, where he graduated B.A. in 1863, with first-class honours in classics, mathematics and natural science. During his course he was awarded the Cooper and Barker scholarships and other prizes.
In 1865, he gained the T. S. Mort Travelling Fellowship. Travelling to Europe, he spent some of his time in Italy, and became much attached to the Italian people and their literature. Many years after, he was to become the first Australian translator of Dante (The Inferno of Dante Alighieri in 1908).
On his return to Brisbane, Griffith studied law and was articled to Arthur Macalister, in one of whose ministries Griffith afterwards had his first portfolio. Griffith was called to the bar in 1867.
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