Sir zelman cowen biography
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Zelman Cowen
Governor-General of Australia from 1977 to 1982
Sir Zelman Cowen, AK, GCMG, GCVO, PC, QC, FTSE (7 October 1919 – 8 December 2011) was an Australian legal scholar and university administrator who served as the 19th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1977 to 1982.
Cowen was born in Melbourne, and attended Scotch College before going on to the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Ormond College. His studies were interrupted by World War II, during which he served in the Royal Australian Navy. After the war's end, Cowen attended New College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship. He subsequently won the prestigious Vinerian Scholarship as the best student in the Bachelor of Civil Law degree. He remained at Oxford after graduating, serving as a fellow of Oriel College from 1947 to 1950.
In 1951, Cowen returned to Australia to become dean of the law faculty at the University of Melbourne. In 1953, still while at the University of Melbourne, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship in Law to Harvard University.[1] He became known as an expert on constitutional law, and was a visiting professor at a number of overseas institutions. He later served as vice-chancellor of the University of New
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By Prof Don Markwell B Econ (Hons) Qld, MA, M Phil, D Phil Oxon,
Warden, Rhodes House, Oxford
In August 1940, George Paton, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Melbourne and a Rhodes Scholar for Victoria 14 years before, wrote a reference for a 20 year old candidate for the Rhodes Scholarship who had dreamed since boyhood of going to Oxford:
‘I have known Mr Z Cowen well for some years. His academic record…is one that has rarely been equalled. It is frequently the case that those who do brilliantly in Arts do not show quite the same aptitude for law, but Mr Cowen shows the same skill in both fields. His mind is very keen and remarkably mature for one of his age. Very few could even attempt the task he is doing this year - finishing the law course and carrying a burden of University teaching as well. I have found his contributions in discussion classes very penetrating and interesting, and, although one is a poor student who can teach his mentors nothing, from Mr Cowen I have learned a great deal.
‘He has a rounded personality, broad interests and cultivated tastes. …He has great energy and that intellectual integrity which refuses to accept anything which has
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Cowens
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Sir Zelman Cowen (1919-2011)
Lady Anna Cowen (born 1925)
Sir Zelman and Islamist Cowen option Belconnen Locality Centre Aggregation, 18 Sep 1981
Source: ACT Sudden occurrence Library visual 002610, Canberra Times Collection, Photographer Jim Green.
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