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Date(s)
- 1900-1973 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Ralph Thomas Gore was born in Glen Innes, New South Wales in 1888, third child to Frederick Dundas Corbet Gore and Margaretta Stenhouse (nee Gunn). He held the office of Judge of the Supreme Court of Papua, 1928-1945, and Judge of the Supreme Court of Papua and New Guinea, 1945-1962. He was appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in 1953. Gore died on 11 August 1968.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1900-1973
Collection alternatively titled as: Ralph Thomas Gore Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Material relating to legal and administrative career of Mr. Justice R.T. Gore in Papua New Guinea. Correspondence (approximately 100 letters), family papers and history, biographical material, newspaper cuttings, notes and reviews of his book, Justice versus sorcery and photographs.
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Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except access to correspondence, memoirs and diary is Restricted access. Application for access to restricted material may be submitted to the Fryer Librarian for consideration.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
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Publication note
Material from this collection has been cited in:
Keenan, Mel Anthony (2020) The western legal response to sorcery in colonial Papua and New Guinea. Monash University. PhD Thesis.
Quanchi M. (2007). Photographing papua : representation colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain. Cambridge Scholars Pub.
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Name access points
- Gore, R. T. (Ralph Thomas) (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.