H. V. Evatt


Herbert Vere Evatt, QC KStJ , usually known as H. V. Evatt or Bert Evatt, and often as Doc Evatt on account of his LLD degree, was an Australian judge, lawyer, parliamentarian and writer.

Evatt was born in Maitland, New South Wales, as the fifth of eight sons of John Ashmore Evatt, an English publican from British India, and Sydneyborn IrishAustralian Jane Jeanie Sophia . His younger brother was politician and lawyer Clive Evatt. Their father died when Bert wasyears old, and his mother shouldered the task of encouraging an intellectually gifted family. He was never known as Herbert as his family called him Bert.

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