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Name	Sir Gordon Wallace
Alternative Names	Gordon Isaacs
Born	22 January, 1900 Redfern, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	11 December, 1987 (aged 87) Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious Influence	Anglican Congregational Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] McCaw, Malcolm Kenneth (friend) Spender, Percy Claude (colleague)
Occupation or Descriptor *	barrister (1928-1960) New South Wales, Australia legal scholar (1940-1975) New South Wales, Australia army officer (1942-1944) Federal, Australia judge (1960-1974) New South Wales, Australia chief justice (1968-1969) New South Wales, Australia

* Dates are approximate