Hv evatt biography of barack

By any measure Herbert Vere Evatt was an outstanding product of Maitland. Born on 30 April 1894, in East Maitland (at the Melbourne St Bank Hotel which his parents managed), he was to have a stellar career in the law and politics, in scholarly writing and in the fledgling United Nations organisation.

Early life and education

The young Evatt attended East Maitland Superior Public School and was a choirboy at his local Anglican Church, but when he was only seven his father died.

Hv evatt biography of barack obama

His time as a resident of Maitland ended with his primary schooling because, when he was ten years old, his mother took him and his siblings to Sydney to live.

Evatt was an outstanding student and very good at sport. On his high school matriculation at Fort Street Model School in Sydney in 1911 he was dux and the captain of both the cricket and rugby teams.

He then attended the University of Sydney, where he completed a BA degree in 1915 with excellent results in mathematics, logic, philoso