Jack Athol Crawcour
1917-1996

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• Jack Athol Crawcour
• Arrangement of material
• About the Geelong Lawyers' Collection
• Lawyers and law associations in the collection

The Jack Athol Crawcour archive by Vivian Hill
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Joseph Crawcour was 14 when he arrived in Geelong in the 1850's.  He had been sent out by his London based father to see what commercial opportunities there were in the new colony.  After his report his parents and the rest of the family migrated and established financial and other commercial businesses at the sites of various gold rush towns.  One of the next generation in Geelong, Henry Isaac Crawcour became a lawyer and established a successful business.  Two of his sons Jack and Murray became lawyers as did their nieces and a nephew.

Life at Melbourne University Law School seemed to be idyllic with tutorials under the palm trees and invitations to the Dean's home for dinner and dancing.  Like others of his generation war interrupted his legal career with service in New Guinea.

Because Geelong was an early settlement many local land titles were held under the Old Law system.  Crown Grants had been made before the Torrens system of Title Certificates came into existence.  Jack Crawcour was an expert in this area of law derived from the feudal practice of Livery of Seisen.  He readily gave assistance to any other practitioner who wanted help.

Arrangement of material

The list below describes material held in the Jack Athol Crawcour archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Crawco Hil/Jac on the shelves in the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront campus.  The material has been arranged in date order. 

Date	Title	Item no.
2/11/1938	Newspaper cutting of photograph while sitting examinations	JC1
14/12/1940	Photograph of Jack Crawcour and his cousin on his graduating Master of Laws [Click on image to enlarge it]	JC2
1943	Photograph when Sub-Lieutenant Crawcour R.A.N. [Click on image to enlarge it]	JC3
1944	Photograph with wife, Anita [Click on image to enlarge it]	JC4
1950	Portrait [Click on image to enlarge it]	JC12
12/7/1981	Invitation to Jack Crawcour and Bill Ainsworth's retirement from practice dinner	JC5
12/7/1981	Photograph taken at retirement dinner	JC6
12/7/1981	Photograph of Anita and Jack Crawcour with Kaye and William Ainsworth at retirement dinner	JC7
11/10/1986	Cutting from 'Geelong Advertiser' 100 years ago section re death of Isaac Crawcour who was grandfather to H.I. Crawcour and great grandfather of Jack Crawcour	JC8
5/1995	Biography of Jack Crawcour by Vivian Hill [First page of biography. Click on image to enlarge it]	JC9
7/6/1996	Photograph showing a brass plate formerly outside his premises	JC13
8/6/1996	Cutting of death notices from 'Geelong Advertiser'	JC10
8/1996	Photocopy of obituary from 'Law Institute Journal'	JC11

Additional note:

• Jack Crawcour is also mentioned in the following archive boxes:

H.I. Crawcour and A.D. Hollyhoke
  - re. history of firm Crawcour and Hollyhoke

Geelong Law Association
  - re. photograph of opening of legal year 1964

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