Clarrie Hermes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Clarrie Hermes

Australian barrister and magistrate

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1921

Place of Birth: Arncliffe, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 24-Jan-1991

Profession: barrister, magistrate, intelligence officer

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Clarrie Hermes

  • Clarence Lindsay Hermes (16 January 1921 – 24 January 1991) was an Australian barrister and magistrate. He was born at Arncliffe in Sydney to schoolteacher Alphonse Réné Hermès and Daphne Browne.
  • From 1928 he lived in South Australia with his family, and in 1936 graduated from Birdwood High School in Adelaide.
  • He was unable to afford university and so worked for the Adelaide Advertiser as a copy boy and then as a clerk at the Union Bank of Australia.
  • He served in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II as a radio and intelligence officer.
  • Following his return, under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme, he studied law at the University of Adelaide.In 1950 he was called to the Bar and joined a firm in Whyalla.
  • On 9 May 1953 he married nurse Betty Ellen Lewthwaite.
  • In 1953 he was recruited by the Australian Secret Intelligence Service and was sent to train with MI6.
  • In 1957 he was expecting an appointment in Indonesia, but the dismissal of Alfred Deakin Brookes put his future in question and he resigned to work for the Crown Solicitor's Office.
  • In 1961 he was appointed to the Adelaide Police Court as a magistrate, and in 1963 moved to Canberra as an additional stipendiary magistrate on the Court of Petty Sessions.
  • He developed a keen interest in the rehabilitation of young offenders.
  • He was given the Canberra Citizen of the Year award in 1968.In 1969 he received a Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts Fellowship and visited Europe and the United States studying legal practices surrounding young offenders.
  • In 1970 he was persuaded by the Liberal Party to stand for a by-election for the House of Representatives seat of Australian Capital Territory, but he was defeated by Kep Enderby of the Labor Party.
  • He then became London representative of the Attorney-General's Department, and in 1980 was appointed Chief Magistrate for the Australian Capital Territory.Hermes retired from the bench in 1984, but later served as chair of the ACT Credit Tribunal and as a government consultant.
  • He died in 1991 in Canberra Hospital after a heart attack.
  • Clarrie Hermes Drive in Gungahlin and Clarrie Hermes Park in Hughes, where Hermes lived, are named in his honour.

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