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John White (jurist) (John Charles White) was born on 1 November, 1911 in Andersons Bay, New Zealand. Discover John White (jurist)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 96 years old?
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John Charles White |
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96 years old |
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Scorpio |
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1 November, 1911 |
Birthday |
1 November |
Birthplace |
Andersons Bay, New Zealand |
Date of death |
(2007-10-27) |
Died Place |
Wellington, New Zealand |
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New Zealand |
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John White (jurist) Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is John White (jurist)'s Wife?
His wife is Dora Wild (m. 1943-1982) Elspeth Fletcher (m. 1987)
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Dora Wild (m. 1943-1982) Elspeth Fletcher (m. 1987) |
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John White (jurist) Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is John White (jurist) worth at the age of 96 years old? John White (jurist)’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from New Zealand. We have estimated
John White (jurist)'s net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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White met his future wife, Dora Wild, at Victoria University College. Her father was the agricultural lecturer and scientist Leonard Wild. Both White and Wild went on military service—with her belonging to the Voluntary Aid Detachment—and they both served in Egypt. They had a military wedding in Maadi in October 1943 at St John's Church. Jack Griffiths, another aide-de-camp, was White's best man and his wife was given away by her brother, Richard Wild. They were to have three daughters and one son, Douglas White, who also became a jurist. His wife died in 1982. In 1987, White married the widow Elspeth Fletcher. White died in Wellington on 27 October 2007. His ashes were buried at Makara Cemetery next to the grave of his first wife.
White was active for the law society and sat on many committees. In 1963, he was a member of the Committee on Absolute Liability. He was a member of the Council of Law Reporting and of the Law Revision Commission. He was councillor and then chairman of the Council of Legal Education. He was president of the Wellington District Law Society in 1961. He was vice president of the New Zealand Law Society and was a Wellington representative for the national body. He represented the World Peace through Law conferences in Athens in 1963 and in Washington DC in 1965. He was a representative of the New Zealand judiciary at the Law–Asia Conference during the 1970s.
For the army, he acted in an unpaid capacity after the war. He held the role of director of Army Legal Services (1955–1966) and for the following 20 years, he was judge advocate general for the army, fleet and airforce. White was active with the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services' Association and rose to the rank of national vice-president. One of his special interests was war pensions and he appeared before parliamentary committee responsible for the matter.
White returned to Wellington after the war and from 1945 to 1966, he was a partner with Young, Bennett, Virtue and White. His field of work was personal injury and accident compensation. White served as solicitor-general from 1966 to 1970 and succeeded Richard Wild in this role, who was his brother-in-law. He was appointed judge at the Supreme Court in 1970 and retired from it in 1981 (the previous year, it had been renamed High Court). He was recalled as an acting High Court judge in 1982 and served until 1984. In 1983, he conducted a royal commission into the 1982 Fijian general election. From 1984 to 1986, he was the acting chief justice of the Solomon Islands and was a member of their Court of Appeal during that time.
On 18 February 1943, White was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (military division), in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the Middle East during the period May to October 1942. In 1966, he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. In the 1982 New Year Honours, he was made a Knight Bachelor.
After he graduated from Victoria, he took courses in shorthand and typing. This enabled him to work as an associate to judges, and in 1937 and 1938, he first worked for Justice Hubert Ostler and then for Justice Peter Quilliam. During 1939, he travelled through Europe with friends and returned home just before World War II started. Ostler was friends with General Bernard Freyberg and had recommended White to Freyberg based on his shorthand and typing skills. In January 1940, White was invited to meet Freybert and within 36 hours, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, and became his personal assistant and aide-de-camp. Freyberg and White left for Egypt on 5 January 1940. White was responsible for writing the general's diary, attended all his meetings, listened in on all his phone calls via a second set, was on the frontline whenever Freyberg went there, and took many photographs. All through this period, White was aware that his work would likely be the basis of future history analysis. White served for Freyberg until 1945, with the general expressing his admiration:
Sir John Charles White MBE QC (1 November 1911 – 27 October 2007) was a New Zealand jurist. During World War II, he served as personal assistant and aide-de-camp to General Bernard Freyberg. After some years as solicitor-general, he was appointed a judge at the Supreme Court.
White was born at Eldin, a building in Andersons Bay near Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1911. His parents were Charles White and Nora (née Ramsay). His maternal grandfather was Keith Ramsay, a businessman and former mayor of Dunedin. His paternal grandparents were John White, a solicitor in Dunedin, and Annie Julie (née Holmes), an artist. He received the first part of his secondary education at John McGlashan College in Dunedin. As his father was a director of the Union Steam Ship Company and that company moved its head office from Dunedin to Wellington in January 1923, the White family moved to Wellington the following month. He continued his education at Wellesley College in Wellington Central (the school has since moved to Days Bay). He obtained a Master of Laws from Victoria University College. During his student days, he represented Victoria in tennis and cricket.