Record ID:
35129060 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19310322
  • Carlton (Vic.)
Death:
  • 20211107
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
Associated with:
  • Australia Italy Victoria
Occupations:
  • Lawyers Judges Governors
Used for:
  • Gobbo, J. A. (James Augustine), 1931-
  • Gobbo, James Augustine, 1931-2021
  • Gobbo, James, Sir, 1931-2010
  • Gobbo, James, 1931-
Notes:
  • Supplement 1980 to Cross on evidence, 1980: title page (J.A. Gobbo)
  • Something to declare : a memoir by Sir James Gobbo, 2010
  • LC/NAF 10 November 2021: authorised access point (Gobbo, James, 1931-)
  • The Age (Melbourne, Vic.) online, 10 November 2021: tributes, 10 November 2021 (Gobbo, James Augustine 22/03/1931 - 07/11/2021. His Honour was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1978 and served until 1994. Following his retirement from the bench, Sir James was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1997) obituary, 8 November 2021 (James "Jimmy" Augustine Gobbo was born in Carlton. His parents had emigrated from Italy in 1927, were back there by 1935, but returned in 1938. James studied at the University of Melbourne, won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford in 1952, and returned to Melbourne. After becomning a barrister and Queen's Counsel, he was appointed as a judge of the Supreeme Court in 1978 and was knighted in 1982, and in 1993 made a Companion of the Order of Australia for service to the law, multicultural affairs and hospitals. He wbecame lieutenant-governor of Victoria in 1995 and governor in 1997, retiring at the end of 2000. he was chairman of the Council of the National Library of Australia and chairman of the Australian Multicultural Foundation.)
Local system number:
  • 000000129746
  • abv00169357
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX17946
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc