11 Facts About Frank Kitto

Frank Kitto later studied at the University of Sydney, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws with first class honours, while winning the Pitt Cobbett Prize for constitutional law in 1924.

From 1921 to 1927, Frank Kitto worked for the Solicitor-General of New South Wales, and after this time he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar, where he practised as a barrister.

Frank Kitto was the first person appointed to the Court who had been born after Federation.

Frank Kitto had a complicated writing style, but his judgments were generally highly regarded for being well founded in legal principle.

Frank Kitto resigned from the High Court on 1 August 1970, and was appointed Chancellor of the University of New England, having been Deputy Chancellor since 1968.

Frank Kitto served as the inaugural Chairman of the Australian Press Council from 1976 to 1982.

In 1982, Frank Kitto was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Sydney and an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of New England.

In 1927, Frank Kitto married Eleanor May Howard and subsequently they had four daughters, Kathleen, Margaret, Lindsay and Elizabeth.

Frank Kitto died in 1994, in Armidale, New South Wales, at the age of 90.

The Frank Kitto family is of Cornish origin; the meaning of the name is "Christopher's children".

In 1983, Frank Kitto was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, having previously been knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1955.