Henry Winneke

Sir Henry Arthur Winneke AC, KCMG, KCVO, OBE, QC was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the 21st Governor of Victoria from 1974 to 1982.

Winneke was born in 1908 to the descendants of German immigrants to Victoria. His father, Henry Christian Winneke was a judge of the County Courts of Victoria. Winneke was educated at Ballarat Grammar School, Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, from which he graduated LLB in 1929 and LLM in 1930. He was a hockey player while at University, and was awarded a University Blue as well as playing in an Australian Universities team. After doing articles at the solicitors firm Gair amp Brahe, he was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Victoria onMay 1931 and called to the Victorian Bar onJuly 1931. He read as a pupil of Wilfred Fullagar, who was later a judge of the High Court of Australia.

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