Richard Kelsham Fullagar (1926 - 2001)

Born 1926 in Victoria, Australia

Ancestors

Died 2001 at about age 75 in Victoria, Australia

Biography

Richard Fullagar is Notable.

The Honourable Justice Richard Fullagar was a member of an illustrious legal family. He was a Supreme Court Judge of Victoria for nineteen years and Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council.

Richard Fullagar was born in Victoria, Australia

Richard Kelsham Fullagar was born in 1926 in Victoria, Australia. He was the son of (later Sir) Wilfred Fullagar and Marion Lovejoy. He attended Trinity Grammar School and Scotch College, Melbourne before commencing at the Geelong College Preparatory School as a boarder in 1937 at the age of 10. In 1939, he won the Harry Purnell Memorial Prize as Dux of the Preparatory School. In his final year at the School, 1943, he was a Sergeant of the Cadet Corps. ^[1]

After College he studied law at the University of Melbourne but only completed his first year before enlisting in the Royal Australian Navy in February 1945. He served as a Midshipman until his discharge at HMAS Lonsdale in March 1946.

Returning to his studies, Richard graduated Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1948 and Master of Laws (LLM) in 1949. He was admitted to practice in October 1949. ^[1]

In 1953 in Victoria, Richard married June Harris of Cobram. ^[2] They subsequently had three children.

He was later called to the Bar in other jurisdictions including Tasmania (1957), Singapore (1967) and New South Wales (1969). His early practice in property and equity soon gave way to industrial property including cases of patent law. In 1964, he became a barrister and by 1974 was vice-chairman of the Bar Council, a Director of Equity Trustees and in 1975 president of the Medico Legal Society. In 1975 he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Victoria where he worked assiduously until his retirement in 1994. That same year he became chairman of the solicitor’s disciplinary body, the Solicitors’ Board, and also became chairman of its successor body, the Legal Profession Tribunal, in 1997. ^[1]

He passed away in 2001 in Victoria. ^[1]

Richard was inducted into the Old Geelong Collegians' Association Notables Gallery at Geelong College in 2011. ^{[3] [1]}

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Ad Astra April 1992 p 16 and The Age (Melb) 1 Dec 2001; accessed 29 Dec 2023
2. ↑ Victoria Marriage Index #13446/1953
3. ↑ The Geelong College: FULLAGAR, Hon Justice Richard Kelsham (1926-2001); accessed 29 Dec 2023