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Sir Josiah Symon KCMG KC: A Biography


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Josiah Symon arrived in South Australia from Scotland in 1866 just before his 20th birthday. His baggage included two boxes of books, references praising his primary school teaching and a few English pounds. In 1934 he left an estate valued in modern terms at $22 million. Symon acquired his wealth as the acknowledged leader of the Adelaide Bar for 30 years, by investments in shares and property in London and Australia, and through his highly regarded vineyard and winery. Knighted for contributions to the federal cause, Symon served in the House of Assembly (1881-1887) and in the Australian Senate (1901-1913) and was, briefly, both a State and a Commonwealth Attorney-General. He headed a large family, owned an estate and working farm and was also a philanthropist, a bibliophile, Shakespearean scholar, president of cultural societies and a sought-after public speaker. His contemporaries knew him as a major figure, but he is now mainly remembered, if at all, as a reactionary and a master of vituperation. To restore balance requires recognition that this largely self-made Scot, composed of many allegiances and contradictions, took principled stands which placed him ahead, alongside and behind his times.

About the Author :
Ian Hancock has written extensively on the political history of Uganda and of Southern Rhodesia/Rhodesia/Zimbabwe; and taught courses on imperial, colonial and African history at Monash University and on African, Australian and British history at the Australian National University. He has published many entries on Liberal Party figures for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, including one on former Prime Minister Harold Holt. He has also published full-length biographies of former Prime Minister Sir John Gorton, former New South Wales Premier Nick Greiner, former federal Attorney-General and long-term leader of the New South Wales Bar Tom Hughes, and of Gorton's controversial and trail-blazing staffer, Ainsley Gotto.

Review :
Until now forgotten, neglected or maligned, Josiah Symon finally comes into focus in this absorbing account from one of the country's finest political historians and biographers. The result is some superb historical storytelling of a Scottish emigrant, South Australian success story and Federation founder for whom commitment to the law, politics and public affairs was enmeshed with deep devotion to family and literature. We also have here a fresh interpretation of the evolution of Australian settler democracy, seen through the prism of the life of an enterprising, intelligent, eloquent, generous, principled, proud and - at times - exasperating man. Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, Australian National University Long-term leader of the Adelaide bar, highly influential state and Federal politician, ardent Federalist, bibliophile, philanthropist and vigneron, Josiah Symon spread his remarkable talents very widely. This Scottish-born titan of late colonial and early national Australian public life has long awaited a biographer capable of doing justice to the highs and lows of his remarkable achievements - and failures - legal, political, and domestic. Now Hancock's acute, balanced, and perceptive life history captures the person behind the public figure, besides making a significant contribution to our understanding of the various worlds in which Symon lived and moved. Professor Wilfrid Prest, University of Adelaide


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  • ISBN-13: 9781743059746
  • Publisher: Wakefield Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wakefield Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 398
  • Sub Title: A Biography
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1743059744
  • Publisher Date: 14 Aug 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 662 gr


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