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Owen dixon biography

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        1. The first biography ever written of Australia's most eminent judge, Sir Owen Dixon (–).
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        3. Sir Owen Dixon (), judge, was born on 28 April at Hawthorn, Melbourne, only son of Joseph William Dixon, barrister, and his wife Edith Annie.
        4. Sir Owen Dixon OM GCMG PC was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.

          5. Sir owen dixon.

          Owen Dixon

          Australian judge and diplomat (1886–1972)

          Sir Owen DixonOM GCMG PC (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1972) was an Australian judge and diplomat who served as the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.

          Many consider him to be Australia's most prominent jurist.[1][2]

          Dixon served as a justice of the High Court for 35 years, including a 12 year period as Chief Justice. He was considered in his time to be one of the world's leading common law jurists, and his judgments reportedly "carried persuasive effect wherever the common law was applied".[3]

          In his lifetime, he was showered globally with various honours, including an appointment to the Privy Council, various honours such as the GCMG and Order of Merit, as well as honorary degrees from the university of Oxford, Harvard, Melbourne, and the Australian National University, as well as an award from Yale for "services to mankind".[3]

          The British law lordLord Wilberforce wrote of