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Burnside, Robert Bruce (1862-1929)
by G. T. Staples
Robert Bruce Burnside (1862-1929), judge, was born on 22 April 1862 at Nassau, Bahamas, West Indies, son of (Sir) Bruce Lockhart Burnside, barrister, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Francis. His father became solicitor-general of the Bahamas and was later chief justice of Ceylon. Burnside was educated at Nassau Grammar School, the Royal Naval School, Newcross, London, and at Nancy, France. Entering Lincoln's Inn in 1881, he was called to the Bar there in 1884; he arrived in Perth in July and began practice; two years later he joined D. G. Gawler in a Fremantle partnership. On 10 December 1887 at Fremantle he married Mary Charity, daughter of Samuel Bruce, a London surgeon. Burnside became usher of the Black Rod in the Legislative Council in 1890. Appointed crown solicitor in 1894, he proved to be a capable law officer and fair-minded prosecutor. In December 1902 he succeeded F. W. Moorhead on the Supreme Court bench...
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