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Anthony Mason (judge)
Australian judge
Sir Anthony Frank MasonAC KBEGBMKCHonFAIB DistFRSN (born 21 April 1925) is an Australian judge who served as the ninth Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1987 to 1995.
He was first appointed to the High Court in 1972, having previously served on the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Early life
Mason was born in Sydney on 21 April 1925.[1] He was one of four children born to Eileen (née McArdle) and Frank Maxwell Mason.
His father, a World War I veteran and Military Cross recipient, was a registered surveyor who developed a substantial practice on the North Shore of Sydney. He served terms as president of the New South Wales bodies for surveying and town planning.[2]
Mason received his early education at Kincoppal, Elizabeth Bay, where he was an acquaintance of future federal attorney-general Tom Hughes.[3] He went on to attend Sydney Grammar School and became interested in law through