• Title
  Street family - Papers of Sir Philip Street and Belinda, Lady Street, 1868-1943
• Call number
  MLMSS 1686 ADD-ON 2204/Box 1
  R 892
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1868 - 1943
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Objects
• Reference code
  402393
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Philip Whistler Street, chief justice and lieutenant governor of NSW, was born in 1863, second son of John Rendell Street and Susannah Caroline, nee Lawson. He was educated at Waverley Hall, Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1883. He was admitted to the NSW Bar in 1886. Street married Belinda Maud Poolman in 1888. He accepted an acting judicial appointment in 1906 and was appointed judge in the Supreme Court of NSW in 1907. Philip Street was appointed chief judge in equity in 1918, and chief justice of the Supreme Court of NSW in 1925. He was appointed K.C.M.G. in 1928. He spent much of 1929 in England with his wife. He was commissioned lieutenant governor of NSW in 1930 and in this role administered the state in the absence of the governor three times between 1934 and 1937. Street retired as chief justice in 1933. He died in 1938, survived by his wife Belinda, Lady Street and his sons Kenneth Whistler Street (1890-1972), and Ernest Whistler Street (1898-1967). His second son Laurence Whistler Street (1893-1915) was killed in action at Gallipoli in May 1915.
  
  Belinda Maud Street was born in 1865, daughter of Frederick William and Belinda Mary Poolman. In 1888 she married Philip Whistler Street. They lived firstly at Meadowbank, and after 1906 at 'Liverynga', Elizabeth Bay, NSW. Belinda Street had four sons, only three of whom survived infancy. Belinda Street died in 1944, survived by her sons Kenneth Whistler Street and Ernest Whistler Street.
• Scope and Content
  A. Sir Philip Street, 1868-1937
  
  1890-1937; Correspondence, being mainly letters received. Correspondents include John Garland, C.G. Wade, John William Street, Kenneth Leslie Street, Henry Selkirk, The Royal Echange Sydney
  
  1868-1901; Miscellaneous papers
  
  1922; World War I Memorial Plaque, being circular metal plaque,12cm diameter, inscribed 'He Died For Freedom and Honour. Laurence Whistler Street'.Lieutenant Laurence Whistler Street, D.C.M., 3rd Battalion, was killed in action at Gallipoli 23 May 1915. Memorial plaques were issued to families of officers killed in action. (Located at R 892)
  
  
  B. Belinda, Lady Street, 1929-1943
  
  1938-1943; Letters received, including letter from Government House, Sydney, enclosing Table of Precedence, 1938
  
  1929; Papers, including passport and copy of last will and testament, 1929
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Applies to R 892
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Garland, John
  Royal Exchange of Sydney
  Selkirk, Henry, 1857-1930
  Street, Belinda Maud, Lady, 1865-1944
  Street, John William, 1862-1943
  Street, Kenneth Leslie, 1870-1955
  Street, Philip Whistler, Sir, 1863-1938
  Wade, C. G. (Charles Gregory), 1863-1922
  
• Subject
  Judges--New South Wales.
  Lieutenant governors--New South Wales.
  Street family--Correspondence.
  
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