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Person
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Sir Henry Seymour Baker
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Dates of existence
1890-1968
History
A long-serving member (1928-34 and 1940-63) of the council of the University of Tasmania, he was appointed deputy-chancellor in 1956 and became chancellor after the death in July of Sir John Morris. President of the Southern Law Society (1939-41) and the Southern Tasmanian Bar Association (1953-56), Baker was vice-president (1955) of the Tasmanian branch of the International Commission of Jurists and a director of the Australian Mutual Provident Society; he was also a member of the Returned Sailors', Soldiers' and Airmen's Imperial League of Australia, and of the Tasmanian, Hobart Legacy, and Naval and Military clubs. For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/baker-sir-henry-seymour-9409