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{{Short description|Australian jurist}} {{Use Australian English|date=February 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]] | name = Sir Francis Burt | honorific-suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|KCMG|QC|size=100%}} | image = Sir Francis Burt.jpg | order = 27th | office = Governor of Western Australia | term_start = 20 March 1990 | term_end = 31 October 1993 | monarch = [[Elizabeth II]] | premier = [[Carmen Lawrence]]<br />[[Richard Court]] | predecessor = [[Gordon Reid (governor)|Gordon Reid]] | successor = [[Michael Jeffery (Australian Army officer)|Michael Jeffery]] | order2 = 11th | office2 = Chief Justice of Western Australia | term_start2 = 1977 | term_end2 = 1988 | predecessor2 = [[Lawrence Jackson (Australian judge)|Sir Lawrence Jackson]] | successor2 = [[David Malcolm]] | birth_name = Francis Theodore Page Burt | birth_date = {{birth date|1918|6|14|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Mosman Park, Western Australia]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|9|8|1918|6|14|df=y}} | death_place = [[Perth]], Western Australia | restingplace = | nationality = Australian | spouse = | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = [[University of Western Australia]] | occupation = | profession = <!--Military service--> | nickname = "Red" | allegiance = Australia | branch = [[Royal Australian Navy]]<br/>[[Royal Australian Air Force]] | serviceyears = 1940β1942 (RAN)<br/>1943β1946 (RAAF) | rank = [[Flight Lieutenant]] | unit = {{HMAS|Leeuwin|naval base|6}}<br/>[[No. 10 Squadron RAAF]] | commands = | battles = [[Second World War]] | awards = }} [[File:Old Courthouse, Perth.jpg|thumb|right|The Old Courthouse adjoining the Supreme Court Buildings in Stirling Gardens which house the Francis Burt Law Education Centre and Museum.]] '''Sir Francis Theodore Page Burt''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|KCMG|QC}} (14 June 1918 β 8 September 2004) was an Australian [[jurist]] who served as the 11th [[Chief Justice of Western Australia]], from 1977 to 1988, and the 27th [[Governor of Western Australia]], from 1990 to 1993. Burt was born in [[Cottesloe, Western Australia|Cottesloe]], a suburb of [[Perth]] Western Australia, and educated at [[Guildford Grammar School]]. He studied law at the [[University of Western Australia]], and also served in the [[Royal Australian Navy]] and the [[Royal Australian Air Force]] during the [[Second World War]]. Burt was made a justice of the [[Supreme Court of Western Australia]] in 1969, and was promoted to Chief Justice in 1977. As Chief Justice, he served as lieutenant-governor. When the Governor of Western Australia, [[Gordon Reid (governor)|Gordon Reid]], resigned in 1989, Burt was appointed to succeed him and served as governor until 1993. ==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 1990β1993|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 }} β 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)] β 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. ==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-legal}} {{succession box | title=[[Chief Justice of Western Australia]] | before=[[Lawrence Jackson (Australian judge)|Sir Lawrence Jackson]] | after=[[David Malcolm]] | years=1977β1988}} {{s-gov}} {{succession box | title=[[Governor of Western Australia]] | before=[[Gordon Reid (Governor)|Gordon Reid]] | after=Major General [[Michael Jeffery (Australian Army officer)|Michael Jeffery]] | years=1990β1993}} {{s-end}} {{Governors of Western Australia}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Burt, Francis}} [[Category:1918 births]] [[Category:2004 deaths]] [[Category:Australian jurists]] [[Category:Royal Australian Air Force officers]] [[Category:Australian King's Counsel]] [[Category:Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery]] [[Category:Chief justices of Western Australia]] [[Category:Judges of the Supreme Court of Western Australia]] [[Category:Companions of the Order of Australia]] [[Category:Governors of Western Australia]] [[Category:Australian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] [[Category:People educated at Guildford Grammar School]] [[Category:Royal Australian Air Force personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II]] [[Category:20th-century King's Counsel]] [[Category:University of Western Australia alumni]]
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