Edward McTiernan

Sir Edward Aloysius McTiernan, KBE , was an Australian jurist, lawyer and politician. He served as an Australian Labor Party member of both the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and federal House of Representatives before being appointed to the High Court of Australia in 1930. He sat on many significant cases on the bench, eventually becoming the longestserving judge in the courts history, before finally retiring in 1976.

McTiernan was born into an Irish Catholic family in the small township of Glen Innes, in the north of New South Wales. Educated in Sydney at Marist Brothers High School Darlinghurst, he studied arts and law at the University of Sydney. He graduated in 1915 and was called to the bar in the following year.

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