RILEY, BERNARD BLOMFIELD (1912-1978), barrister and judge, was born on 21 July 1912 at Cairns, Queensland, second child of Australian-born parents Bernard Rocks Riley, manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd's Hambledon Mill, and his wife Isabella Marion, née Murphy. Bernard was a fifth-generation Australian, through his great-great-grandfather Richard Brooks. He attended Kersworth Preparatory School, Rose Bay, then boarded at The King's School, Parramatta. A fine middle-distance runner and school captain (1930), he won the Broughton and Forrest exhibition. He graduated from Keble College, Oxford (B.A., 1934; M.A., 1951), with second-class honours in jurisprudence, and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn, London, on 3 July 1935. Back in Sydney, he was associate, successively, to Chief Justice (Sir) Frederick Jordan and (Sir) Colin Davidson. On 4 May 1936 he was admitted to the New South Wales Bar. He built up a practice (mainly ...

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