Street family

Street

Current region	Australia, United Kingdom
Place of origin	United Kingdom
Members	Sir Thomas Street John Rendell Street Sir Philip Street Sir Kenneth Street Sir Laurence Street, AC Jessie Street Geoffrey Street, MC Tony Street
Connected members	William Lawson George Holden John Brown Watt Oswald Watt, OBE Jack Fingleton, OBE Arthur Emmett, AO

Members of the Street family have been prominent in politics and law, especially in Australia and the state of New South Wales, since the 19th Century. Various ancestral lines of the family were prominent throughout the second millennium in the United Kingdom as members of the Berkeley family and the House of Grey. In Australian history, the Street family has numbered numerous members of parliament, a progressive radical, a Foreign Minister, a Minister of Defence who died in office during World War II, and multiple ANZAC veterans who fought and died in the Battle of Gallipoli. The Street family is furthermore the only dynasty in Australian judicial appointments with three consecutive vice-regal appointments to their name; Sir Philip Whistler Street, his son Sir Kenneth Whistler Street and his grandson Sir Laurence Whistler Street all having become Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant Governors of New South Wales. The appointment of Sir Kenneth as a judge of the Supreme Court on 7 October 1931 also made Australian history for the first and only time a father and son have sat on the same bench as judges together, his father Sir Philip having been Chief Justice at the time. The narrator of the ABC series, Dynasties said: "Among the great and powerful of the law, no family sits higher than the Streets. They've been at the forefront of the legal establishment for over a century." The connected members of the family number several more members of parliament, as well as judges, a Legion of Honour flying ace, a famed explorer and an Australian Test cricketer.

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