John Jefferson Bray

**John Jefferson Bray**, AC QC (16 ga Satumba 1912 - 26 ga Yuni 1995) lauya ne na Australiya, Alƙali, masanin kimiyya, mai kula da jami'a, jami'in Crown, kuma mawaki. Daga 1967 zuwa 1978, ya yi aiki a matsayin Babban Alkalin Kotun Koli ta Kudancin Australia.

## Rayuwa ta farko da iyaye
An haifi Bray a Adelaide, Kudancin Australia a ranar 16 ga Satumba 1912, babban ɗan Harry Midwinter Bray (1879-1965), mai sayar da kayayyaki na Adelaide, da matarsa, Gertrude Eleanore Stow (membobin danginsa mishaneri ne na Congregationalist a Kudancin Ostiraliya). Iyalin mahaifinsa suna da tarihin shiga cikin siyasar Kudancin Australia da al'amuran yanzu: kakan Bray shine Sir John Cox Bray, tsohon Firayim Minista na Kudancin Ostiraliya. A gefen mahaifiyarsa, Bray ya yi iƙirarin dangantaka da shugaban Amurka na uku, Thomas Jefferson.

## Ilimi
Bray ya yi karatu a makarantar jihar a Sevenhill a cikin Clare Valley; a Kwalejin St Peter, Adelaide; da kuma Jami'ar Adelaide, inda ya sami BA a 1932, LL. B. (Hons.) a cikin 1933 da kuma LL. D. a cikin 1937. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Doctorate a shekarar 1983.

## Ayyukan shari'a
Bray ta horar da ita a matsayin lauya kuma an shigar da ita a Kotun Kudancin Australia a 1933, an nada ta a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga Sarauniya a shekara ta 1957.

Ya kasance malami a fannin shari'a a Jami'ar Adelaide a cikin shekaru 1941, 1943, 1945 (saboda rashin iyawarsa ta likita don yin aiki a yakin duniya na biyu saboda rashin gani sosai ), kuma a cikin 1951.

Ya yi aiki a matsayin malami a Tarihin Shari'a a Jami'ar Adelaide daga 1957 zuwa 1958, sannan kuma a matsayin malama a Dokar Romawa daga 1959 har zuwa 1966. An nada shi Babban Alkalin Kotun Koli ta Kudancin Australia a ranar 28 ga Fabrairu 1967 kuma ya yi aiki har sai da ya yi ritaya daga bangaren shari'a a ranar 28 de Nuwamba 1978.[1] Babban Lauyan Kudancin Australia, Don Dunstan, ne ya nada shi kai tsaye ba tare da ya fara aiki a matsayin alƙali ba, wanda ya kasance abin mamaki.[2]

An nada Bray a matsayin Shugaban Jami'ar Adelaide a shekarar 1968, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Gwamna na Kudancin Australia daga shekarar 1968 har zuwa ritaya.

## Sauran ayyukan
Bray ya kasance memba mai aiki na Kwamitin Litattafan Kudancin Australia tsakanin 1944 da 1989, memba mafi tsawo na Kwamitin Littattafan har zuwa wannan lokacin. Bayan ya yi ritaya, ɗakin karatu na jihar ta Kudancin Ostiraliya ya ba da sunan sashinsa na Bray Reference Library, sunan da aka ba wa ɗakunan ɗakuna lokacin da aka sake gina ɗakin karatu a shekara ta 2001.

Ya kasance mataimakin shugaban reshen Kudancin Australia na Fellowship of Australian Writers, kuma yana da alaƙa da shirya bukukuwan farko na bukukuwan 'yan wasan kwaikwayo na farko (1960, 1962, 1964), tare da kundi na farko na shayari da aka ƙaddamar a mako na biyu na' yan wasan kwaikwayo a shekarar 1962.

Ya kasance a taron kaddamarwa na Friendly Street Poets, kuma ya kasance memba mai aiki da kuma mai ba da gudummawa ga tarihin shekara-shekara na al'umma, Friendly Street Reader. Kyautar Satura kyauta ce ta waka wacce aka ba da gudummawa ta hanyar gado daga dukiyarsa kuma ta ba da kyautar Friendly Streets. 

An buga littafin waka na farko na Bray a shekarar 1962.

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