Sir Harold Crisp (27 July 1874 – 12 May 1942) was an Australian judge of the

Supreme Court of Tasmania The Supreme Court of Tasmania is the highest State court in the Australian State of Tasmania. Together with the Magistrates Court, it forms the judiciary in Tasmania. In the Australian court hierarchy, the Supreme Court of Tasmania is in the mid ...

from 1914 and

Chief Justice of Tasmania The chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, and the highest ranking judicial officer in the Australian state of Tasmania. The chief justice is both the judicial head of the Supreme Cou ...

from 1937 until his retirement in 1940. Crisp was born in

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, Tasmania in 1874. His father, David Crisp, was a well-known lawyer in Hobart, and Harold served articles with his father before his admission as a practitioner of the Supreme Court on 16 April 1896. Upon his admission to the bar, he joined his father's firm. He moved to the town of

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on Tasmania's west coast where he practised for several years before returning to Hobart to join his father as a partner in the firm Crisp & Crisp. In 1914, on his 40th birthday, Crisp accepted an appointment as a puisne judge of the Supreme Court and took his seat on the bench on 2 August. When Chief Justice Sir

Herbert Nicholls Sir Herbert Nicholls (11 August 1868 – 11 November 1940) was an Australian judge and politician, who was Chief Justice of Tasmania from 1914 to 1937, and as an independent member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1900 to 1909. In parli ...

retired on 31 October 1937, Crisp served as acting Chief Justice until he was officially appointed on 21 December. On 9 June 1938, Crisp was made Knight Bachelor.CRISP, Harold
''It's an Honour''. In May 1939, Crisp announced his retirement due to ill health, applying to take nine months of long service leave from July before the completion of his term in April 1940. After a farewell function on 14 July 1939, Crisp left for

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. He died at his home in the Sydney suburb of

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on 12 May 1942.

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