Sir Roslyn Foster Bowie Philp KBE

Order of the British Empire

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 (27 July 1895 - 19 March 1965) was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Court of Queensland

Supreme Court of Queensland

The Supreme Court of Queensland, which is based at the Law Courts Complex, is the superior court for the Australian State of Queensland and sits around the middle of the Australian court hierarchy...

, which is the highest ranking court

Australian court hierarchy

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 in the Australia

Australia

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States and territories of Australia

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 of Queensland

Queensland

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. He served as a puisne judge 4 May 1939 until 8 February 1956. He served as a senior puisne judge from 9 February 1956 until his death in March 1965.

Philp's father was the journalist and author James Philp

James Philp

James Philp was Scottish-born Australian journalist and author, the one who drafted the rules of the Dawn and Dusk Club of which Australian writer Henry Lawson was a prominent member. After writing for New Zealand newspapers, in Sydney in 1888 he founded Australia's first Chinese newspaper, later...

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