Record ID:
52408714 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
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Birth:
  • United Kingdom
Lived/located in:
  • Hobart, Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Governor of Tasmania judge
Notes:
  • From Wikipedia, viewed 4 August 2017: Peter George Underwood AC (10 October 1937 – 7 July 2014) was an Australian jurist and the Governor of Tasmania from 2008 until his death in office in 2014. He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania from 2004 to 2008, having been a judge of that court from 1984. Underwood was born in 1937 in the United Kingdom, and emigrated to Australia in 1950. He graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1960, and practised law in Hobart for the law firm Murdoch, Clarke, Cosgrove and Drake. He was a distinguished trial advocate for over twenty years. Here are entered works by Peter Underwood acting in his individual capacity. For works by him acting in his official capacity as Governor, see also: Tasmania. Governor (2008 - 2014 : Underwood)
  • Tin Mountain, 2013 : foreword (The Honourable Peter Underwood AC, Governor of Tasmania)
  • From Government house website, viewed 20 January 2014: "His Excellency, the Honourable Peter Underwood AC was sworn in as Tasmania’s 27th Governor on 2 April 2008. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania from September 1984 until 2 December 2004 when he was appointed Chief Justice of that Court, an office he held until he assumed the Office of Governor." http://www.govhouse.tas.gov.au/governor/curriculum-vitae
Cataloguing source:
  • TSL eng rda TSL TSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc