Everything about William Irvine Australia totally explained
Sir
William Hill Irvine GCMG (
6 July 1858 -
20 August 1943),
Australian politician and judge, was the 21st
Premier of Victoria. Irvine was born in
Newry in
County Down,
Ireland, into a
Scottish-
Presbyterian family. He was educated in
Armagh and
Dublin, graduating in law in
1879 before migrating to
Melbourne, where he taught in Presbyterian schools and read law at
Melbourne University, gaining a masters degree in arts and law. He soon became a leading Melbourne barrister.
In
1894 Irvine was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly as a liberal. He was Attorney-General
1899-
1900 and
1902-
03 and Solicitor-General in
1903. He succeeded
George Turner as leader of the Victorian Liberals, but was much more conservative than either Turner or the federal
Protectionist Party leader,
Alfred Deakin. In
1903 he displaced the more liberal
Alexander Peacock and became Premier and Treasurer, holding office until
1904, when he was succeeded by
Thomas Bent.
In
1906 Irvine was elected to the
Australian House of Representatives for the seat of
Flinders. First elected as an independent Protectionist, he became a member of Deakin's
Commonwealth Liberal Party in
1908. He was
Attorney-General in
Joseph Cook's Liberal government of
1913-
14. He was considered a potential
Prime Minister of Australia, but his abrupt manner and hard-line conservatism made him unacceptable to many Liberals: he was known in Parliament as "Iceberg Irvine."
Recognising this, Irvine accepted the appointment as the
Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the
highest ranking court in the
Australian
State of
Victoria. He held this position from
1918 until
1935.
He was knighted in
1914 and made
GCMG in
1936. A keen motorist, he was a founding member of the
Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV) and was its patron from
1938 through
1943. In
1932 a painting of Irvine by
Ernest Buckmaster won the
Archibald Prize, Australia's best-known portrait prize.
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