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Name	Sir William John Victor Windeyer
Born	28 July, 1900 Hunters Hill, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	23 November, 1987 (aged 87) Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Related Entries	[View as tree] Windeyer, William Archibald (father) Windeyer, Margaret (aunt) Brereton, Ernest Le Gay (uncle) Brereton, John Le Gay (uncle) Windeyer, Mary Elizabeth (grandmother) Brereton, John Le Gay (grandfather) Windeyer, William Charles (grandfather) FitzGerald, Robert David (cousin) Riley, Bernard Blomfield (work colleague) Dixon, Owen (colleague) Williams, Dudley (colleague) Lang, John Thomas (opposed) Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (related entry)
Occupation or Descriptor *	soldier (1918-1919) Federal, Australia barrister (1925-1958) New South Wales, Australia academic (1929-1940) New South Wales, Australia legal scholar (1929-1972) New South Wales, Australia army officer (1940-1945) Federal, Australia company director (1953-1958) New South Wales, Australia university administrator (1955-1958) New South Wales, Australia judge (1958-1972) Federal, Australia

* Dates are approximate