Editing Francis Burt (judge) (section)

==Biography==
Born in [[Mosman Park, Western Australia]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Births |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/27480924 |access-date=14 June 2019 |work=The West Australian |date=17 June 1918 |location=Perth, WA |page=1}}</ref> Burt's great-grandfather, [[Archibald Burt|Sir Archibald Burt]], was Chief Justice of Western Australia from 1861 to 1879, while his grandfather, [[Septimus Burt]], was [[Attorney-General of Western Australia|Attorney-General]] and [[Agent-General]] when [[responsible government]] was granted to Western Australia in December 1890. Archibald Burt had been a slaveholder in the West Indies. Burt was educated at [[Guildford Grammar School]] and later studied law at the [[University of Western Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccentre.wa.gov.au/index.cfm?event=governorsFrancisburt|work=Constitutional Centre of Western Australia|title=Sir Francis Theodore Page Burt 1990–1993|date=July 2005}}</ref> During the [[Second World War]] he served in the [[Royal Australian Navy]] and the [[Royal Australian Air Force]].<ref>[http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=N&veteranId=1085502 BURT, FRANCIS THEODORE PAGE (RAN)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704182749/http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?serviceId=N&veteranId=1085502 |date=4 July 2018 }} – World War II Nominal Roll. Retrieved 12 July 2012.</ref><ref>[https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/veteran?id=1289151&c=WW2 BURT, FRANCIS THEODORE PAGE (RAAF)]  – World War II Nominal Roll. Retrieved 13 August 2024.</ref>

After being admitted to the Bar in 1941, Burt gained his skills as a [[Queen's Counsel]] in 1959, and in 1961 founded the independent [[Bar (law)|Bar]] in [[Western Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wabar.asn.au/|title=Western Australian Bar Association|date=March 2006}}</ref> With others, he established Bar Chambers in 1962. He was appointed as a Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Western Australia]] in 1969, a position he held until 1977 when he was promoted to [[Chief Justice of Western Australia]]. He retired in 1988.

Burt was afforded a [[state funeral]] on his death in 2004. He is buried at [[Karrakatta Cemetery]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=KC00159087|title=Summary Of Record Information, Francis Theodore Page Burt|publisher=Metropolitan Cemeteries Board|access-date=24 October 2010|archive-date=10 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610214629/http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=KC00159087|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Francis Burt Chambers located in [[Allendale Square]], [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]], and the Francis Burt Law Education Centre and Museum in [[Stirling Gardens]] are both named in his honour.