SHAND, JOHN WENTWORTH (1897-1959), barrister, was born on 4 September 1897 at Lewisham, Sydney, second child of native-born parents Alexander Barclay Shand, barrister, and his wife Florence Amelia, née Brierley. Jack was educated at Sydney Grammar School and St Andrew's College, University of Sydney (B.A., 1918; LL.B., 1921). In 1918, after training at the State Aviation School, Richmond, he sailed for Egypt where he was commissioned in the Royal Air Force on 25 October as a kite-balloon officer. He returned to the University of Sydney and was admitted to the Bar on 3 November 1921.

At St James's Church of England, King Street, on 9 February 1926 Shand married Enid Mary Holt; they were to have four children before being divorced in November 1939. He never lost his frolicsome ways and zest for life; he had a passion for fast cars and belonged to the Killara ...

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Australian Dictionary of Biography