Hon. Reginald Heath Long Innes

Reginald Heath Long Innes (1869-1947), barrister and judge, was born on 17 November 1869 at Double Bay, Sydney, third son of (Sir) Joseph George Long Innes and his wife Emily Jane(t), daughter of John Smith, pastoralist. In 1882 he was sent to Malvern College, Worcestershire, England, where he excelled in scholarship and sport, winning the Lea Shakespeare and Chance prizes and representing the school at cricket, boxing and rifle-shooting. In 1888 he went up to New College, Oxford (B.A., 1891; B.C.L. 1893). Like his father he entered Lincoln's Inn in 1889 and in 1892 read with W. M. Cann, a notable equity pleader. He was called to the Bar on 26 January 1893 and in July appeared before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as junior counsel for the respondent in the appeal case, Makin v. Attorney-General of New South Wales.

Biography:

• Peter Hohnen, 'Innes, Reginald Heath (1869–1947)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University

• Residence: - 1928 - England, Great Britain, United Kingdom
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