page_title: Street family
section_title: 3rd generation
hierarchical_section_title: Street family / 3rd generation
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of Chief Justice Sir Kenneth Street, from Dictionary of Australian Biography, Percival Serle. In public domain as picture taken before 1940 (1931). Source = http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=413945
context_page_description: The Street family is an Australian legal, political and military family. The dynasty was founded by John Rendell Street, a 19th century banker and politician. John's son Sir Philip Whistler Street, grandson Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenneth Whistler Street, and great-grandson Colonel Sir Laurence Whistler Street each became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales. Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street was Minister of Defence in World War II, his son Anthony Austin Street was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the human rights campaigner Lady "Red Jessie" Street was Australia's first female delegate to the United Nations. Sir Laurence's son Commander Alexander "Sandy" Street, daughter Lieutenant-Commander Sylvia Emmett and son-in-law Arthur Emmett are federal judges.
context_section_description: Lieutenant Laurence Whistler Street (1894–1915) was 21 years of age when he was killed in action in May 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli fighting for the Allied forces in World War I. A former student of Sydney Law School, he was made an officer of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Infantry Brigade. He volunteered for active wartime service in August 1914, among the first of his generation.
  Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Kenneth Whistler Street, KCMG, KStJ, QC (1890–1972) was elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court on 7 October 1931. He thus joined the bench of which his father was then Chief Justice. According to Percival Serle, this is the only known case in Australian history of a father and a son sitting together as judges on the same bench. Sir Kenneth was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales on 7 February 1950. He was Lieutenant-Governor from 1950 to 1972.
  Prior to his career as a judge, he served the Allied forces in World War I, having been commissioned on 29 September 1914 in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and sent to France. He ultimately rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Army. Like his father before him, he was buried with a state funeral at St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. Street House at Cranbrook School, Sydney is named in his honour. Sir Kenneth's wife Lady "Red Jessie" Street was a prominent human rights activist. His eldest son Laurence was named after his brother who died at Gallipoli.
  Lady "Red Jessie" Street (born Jessie Mary Grey Lillingston; 1889–1970) was the daughter of Charles Alfred Gordon Lillingston and Mabel Harriet Ogilvie, the daughter of Australian politician Edward Ogilvie, MLC.  She was an Australian suffragette who campaigned extensively for peace and human rights. Dubbed "Red Jessie" by her detractors in the right-wing media for her efforts to promote diplomacy with the USSR and to ease tensions during the Cold War, Jessie was a champion of the progressive cause. She would be a key figure in Australian and international political life for over 50 years, from the women's suffrage struggle in England to the removal of Australia's constitutional discrimination against Aboriginal people in 1967.
  Jessie was Australia's only female delegate to the establishment of the United Nations conference in San Francisco in 1945, where she played a key role in ensuring that gender was included as a non-discrimination clause, in addition to race and religion, in the United Nations Charter. She is recognised both in Australia and internationally for her activism. The Jessie Street Centre, the Jessie Street Trust, the Jessie Street National Women's Library and the Jessie Street Gardens exist in her honour.
  Brigadier Geoffrey Austin Street, MP, MC (1894–1940) was a cousin of Sir Kenneth's who served as Australia's Minister of Defence in the First Menzies Government during World War II. He was awarded a Military Cross for his courage in serving the First Australian Imperial Force at the Battle of Gallipoli, where he was wounded before returning to service in France during World War I. At the request of his friend Sir Robert Menzies, Geoffrey stood for and won the seat of Corangamite in 1934.
  Geoffrey was made Minister of Defence in November 1938 and played a major role in the expansion of the military and munitions production prior to the outbreak of World War II and pushed the National Registration Act (1939) through parliament despite strong opposition. In November 1939, Menzies abolished the position of Minister of Defence and appointed Geoffrey Minister for the Army and Minister for Repatriation. Geoffrey died in the 1940 Canberra air disaster, along with two other Cabinet ministers.
caption: Sir Kenneth Street, 2nd Chief Justice of the family
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