Papers of Sir Kenneth Bailey, 1916-1972 [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 2435781
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Bailey, Kenneth, Sir, 1898-1972
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Permission required for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1916-1972]
- 8.18 m. (31 boxes) + 3 fol. boxes + 1 folio.
- Summary:
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The Bailey papers consist of printed material, pamphlets, copies of addresses and lectures, newspaper cuttings, personal documents, notes, financial papers, correspondence and telegrams, drafts of articles, diaries kept during the First World War and during Kenneth Bailey's last year in Canada, and photographs and slides. The material ranges over such subjects as degree-conferring, Wesley College, Melbourne, Student Christian Movement, and various questions of law and legislation. Most of the correspondence is personal (31 boxes, 3 fol. boxes, 1 folio).
- Biography/History:
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Academic, lawyer, public servant and high commissioner. Kenneth Hamilton Bailey was born in Melbourne in 1898. After serving with the AIF, he was the 1918 Victorian Rhodes Scholar, studing history and later law at Oxford. He returned to Melbourne in 1924 as a lecturer in history, and was appointed professor of jurisprudence in 1928 and professor of public law in 1931. In 1946 Bailey was appointed solicitor-general, and remained with the Attorney-General's Department until 1964. In 1946 he was also the member of the Australian delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations who was responsible for the terms of the New Guinea Trusteeship Agreement.
He lead the Australian delegation to the Law of the Sea Conference at Geneva in 1956 and, in the same year, received his knighthood. He was appointed Australian High Commissioner to Canada, 1964-1969. Following his retirement from diplomatic life he accepted a further appointment as a consultant to two departments he had worked in, and until his death in Canberra in May 1972, he was still employed by the Commonwealth. In March 1972, an honorary doctor of laws degree was conferred on him at Canberra Hospital. It was the third such degree, the others being conferred on him by the Australian National University and Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no.: MS 4622.
- Related Material:
- Kenneth Bailey interviewed by Mel Pratt for the Mel Pratt collection; Located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC 121/20.
- Cited In:
- Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia, C469.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available online and in the Special Collections Reading Room.
- Subject:
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- Bailey, Kenneth, Sir, 1898-1972 -- Archives
- University of Melbourne. Faculty of Law -- Employees -- Archives
- Australia. Attorney-General's Department -- Officials and employees -- Archives
- Attorneys general -- Australia -- Archives
- Ambassadors -- Australia -- Archives
- Diplomatic and consular service, Australian -- Canada
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
- Australia -- Officials and employees -- Archives
- Time Coverage:
- 1916-1972
- Occupation:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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