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Name	Thomas Weetman Smith
Born	28 September, 1901 Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	16 June, 2000 (aged 98) Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cause of Death	pneumonia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Tait, Robert Peters (related entry)
Education *	Abbotsholme College (Killara, Sydney) (student, 1911-1914) Sydney Church of England Grammar School (student, 1915-1918) University of Melbourne (student, 1920-1925) Trinity College (University of Melbourne) (resident, 1921-1924)
Occupation or Descriptor *	barrister (1926-1950) Victoria, Australia judge (1950-1973) Victoria, Australia law reformer (1961-1984) Victoria, Australia
Awards	Companion of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1990)
Legacies *	Tom Smith Library (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) (eponym, 2016)
Workplaces *	University of Melbourne (law) (lecturer, 1933-1946) War Cabinet Secretariat (barrister, 1942-1945) Supreme Court of Vic (judge, 1950-1973) Monash University (law) (founding member, 1965)

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