Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Blair, James William, Sir., 1871-1944
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
1871-1944
History
Sir James William Blair, KCMG, 1870 to 1944, was an Australian politician, lawyer and judge. He was elected to the Queensland Parliament on several occasions and became Attorney-General in 1903. In later life he took up an appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland and went on to become the Chief Justice of that court. Blair took on many civic roles including that of Chancellor of the University of Queensland in 1927.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
AU QU
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Status
Revised
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 12-Mar-2025.