Edmund Barton

Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC was an Australian politician and judge. He served as the first Prime Minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903 and became a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.

Barton was born in the Sydney suburb of Glebe, the ninth child of English parents William Barton, a stockbroker, and Mary Louise Barton . He was baptised at St James Church, Sydney onJuly 1849. He was educated at Fort Street Model School and Sydney Grammar School, where he was twice dux and School Captain and met his lifelong friend and later fellow Justice of the High Court of Australia, Richdfhhard OConnor. He graduated with firstclass honours and the University Medal in classics from the University of Sydney, where he also demonstrated considerable skill as a cricketer in batting, but not in fielding. He was also an active founding member of the Sydney Rowing Club. Barton became a barrister in 1871. On a cricketing trip to Newcastle in 1870 he met Jane Mason Ross, whom he married in 1877.

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