Sir Herbert Mayo (3 June 1885 – 1 October 1972) was a prominent South Australian jurist.

History

Herbert Mayo was born in

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a son of George Gibbes Mayo (–), and Henrietta Mary Mayo, née Donaldson (–). George Mayo was an engineer. Herbert was educated at

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and studied law at the

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, and was called to the Bar in December 1909. He had a practice at Lameroo and Pinnaroo before in 1914 joining with Stanley Murray and

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as the legal firm of Mayo, Murray & Cudmore with offices in Street. Sir

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was later to join the firm. In 1929 he joined with William A. "Willie" Magarey (who later the same year),

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and J. P. Astley to form Magarey, Finlayson, Mayo & Astley,Howard Zelling, 'Mayo, Sir Herbert (1885–1972)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mayo-sir-herbert-11097/text19755, published first in hardcopy 2000, accessed online 4 September 2016. then became Finlayson, Mayo, Astley & Hayward, with which A. R. Downer and John Hervey Bagot were early associated. He was appointed

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in 1930. He served from 1924 to 1941 on the council of the

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and its president in the years 1932–33, 1934–35 and 1939–41, and was for South Australian editor of the Australian Law Journal. He also lectured at the School of Law at the

. He served from 1942 to 1966 as judge of the

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, replacing (later Sir)

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who had been appointed Chief Justice.

Recognition

He was appointed KCMG in the King's Birthday honours list in 1948.

Family

Herbert Mayo married Clarice Gwendoline Thomson Melrose (27 March 1890 – 29 May 1957) on 17 May 1911. She was a daughter of James Melrose (1857–1922) and granddaughter of

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(1806–1894). Their children included: *Eric Elton Mayo (28 July 1912 – 19 November 1941) who as Lieut. Eric Elton Mayo RAN on 4 July 1939 married Edith Janet Allen Simpson (1915-1995), and was lost in the sinking of . They had two sons. Their home for many years was in

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where he died. *Clarice Elton Mayo (1914– ) *Diana Elton Mayo (1917– ) *George Melrose Elton Mayo (1918– ) *Helen Prudence Elton Mayo (1921– ) He married again, to the widow Gwen Alister Brookes, née McInnes (1908– ) on 3 June 1958. The medical doctor Helen Mayo (1878–1967) was a sister and the organizational theorist

Elton Mayo George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880 – 7 September 1949) was an Australian born psychologist, industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.Cullen, David O'Donald. ''A new way of statecraft: The career of Elton Mayo and the development o ...

(1880–1949) was a brother.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mayo, Herbert Judges of the Supreme Court of South Australia Australian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George 1885 births 1972 deaths Lawyers from Adelaide