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Reginald CARTER (1908 - 2001)
Judge
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Reginald CARTER (1908 - 2001) Frederick Walter CARTER (1868 - 1940)











Eva HIPWOOD (1873 - 1956)











Reginald CARTER

Reginald CARTER
Reginald CARTER Reginald CARTER
b. 25 Apr 1908 at Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
d. Feb 2001 at Queensland, Australia aged 92
Parents:
Frederick Walter CARTER (1868 - 1940)
Eva HIPWOOD (1873 - 1956)
Siblings (1):
Mary Edna Violet CARTER (1901 - 1952)
Events in Reginald CARTER (1908 - 2001)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
25 Apr 1908 Reginald CARTER was born Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
11 Oct 1940 32 Death of father Frederick Walter CARTER (aged 71) Southport, Queensland, Australia
1956 48 Death of mother Eva HIPWOOD (aged 83)
Feb 2001 92 Reginald CARTER died Queensland, Australia
Personal Notes:
Judge of the District Court of Queensland
11 February 1960–24 April 1978

His Honour Judge Reginald F Carter was born in Brisbane on 25 April 1908. He attended Brisbane Grammar School and The University of Queensland, where he completed a degree in Arts and later gained a Master's degree in law with a thesis on search warrants. With his extensive knowledge of prosecutions, he published a highly regarded annotated work on Queensland's criminal law.

His Honour was admitted to the Bar in June 1931. Five years later he joined the Crown Solicitor's Office and rose to become the Chief Crown Prosecutor before his appointment to the Bench.

His Honour was appointed a Judge of the District Court in Brisbane on 11 February 1960. He was the fourth judge appointed under the District Courts Act 1958. He retired on 24 April 1978 and died in February 2001.

In 2001, the library received a large collection of materials spanning 70 years of Carter's life, including letters, photographs, clippings, and school medals.

Collection
This is a collection of items donated by Judge Reginald Carter, which relate to his life and career as a Queensland District Court judge. Judge Carter was the author of Criminal Law of Queensland, a widely-used textbook affectionately known as Carter's Criminal Code, now in its 21st edition.

The 254 items in this collection include letters, photographs, certificates, newspaper clippings, school medals and reports, which range in date from 1908 to 1990. These shed light on the career of a Queensland District Court judge and illustrate the legal lifestyle during this period.

Reginald Carter
Reginald Carter was born in Brisbane on 25 April 1908. He attended Brisbane Grammar School and The University of Queensland, where he completed an Arts degree and later a Master's degree in law with a thesis on search warrants.

Carter was admitted to the Bar in June 1931 and five years later joined the Crown Solicitor's Office. He rose to become the Chief Crown Prosecutor before being was appointed a Judge of the District Court in Brisbane on 11 February 1960. He was the fourth judge appointed under the District Courts Act 1958. He retired on 24 April 1978 and died in February 2001.

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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