Alexander Shand (barrister)
{{Short description|Australian barrister}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1865|12|26}}
| birth_place = Ulladulla, New South Wales
| death_date = {{death date and age|1949|10|3|1864|12|26|df=y}}
| death_place = Darlinghurst, New South Wales
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| education = Newington College
University of Sydney
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| occupation = Barrister
King's Counsel
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| spouse = Florence Amelia (née Brierley)
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| children = John Wentworth Shand QC (1897–1959) son
| parents = Mary (née Barclay) and John Shand
| relatives = Alec Shand QC (1929–2011) grandson
Dr Cecil Purser brother-in-law
Adam Shand great-grandson[http://www.afr.com/it-pro/long-road-home-20111208-j3p4u Australian Financial Review]
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Alexander Barclay Shand (26 December 1865 – 3 October 1949) was an Australian barrister and King's Counsel.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18127844 |title=Mr. A. B. Shand, K.C., Dead |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=34,878 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=4 October 1949 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} He became a leading legal figure in NSW. Shand refused an invitation to become a New South Wales Supreme Court Judge{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189487004 |title=Death of Mr. A. Shand K.C. |newspaper=The Age |issue=29,465 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=4 October 1949 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} but served as a Royal Commissioner.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article83441420 |title=MILK ACT PROBE |newspaper=Singleton Argus |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=15 February 1933 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
Biography
Shand was born in Ulladulla, New South Wales, to John Shand and Mary (née Barclay). John Shand (1825–1891) had arrived in Sydney in 1853 as a stonemason before becoming a farmer and finally a police magistrate at Penrith Court. Shand Snr founded a legal dynasty that produced three generations of barristers. A. B. Shand, as he came to be known, was educated at Newington College commencing in 1880.Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp177 He went up to the University of Sydney and graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1884.{{cite web
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}} Following graduation and articles, Shand was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1887. He was the Crown Prosecutor on the NSW western circuit in 1895-6 and took silk in 1906. He became a leading member of the Bar Council. His wife, Florence (née Brierley), became a tireless worker for the poor and infirm and sat on the boards of various hospitals, schools and women's auxiliaries.
{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16596965 |title=DEATH OF MRS. SHAND. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,648 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 October 1929 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} She died in October 1929.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16597391 |title=OBITUARY. MRS. A. B. SHAND. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,649 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 October 1929 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=21 |via=National Library of Australia}} Mrs Shand was the sister of Louisa Victoria, Mrs Cecil Purser (née Brierley).{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16596965 |title=DEATH OF MRS. SHAND. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,648 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 October 1929 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} Shand retired in 1930{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16689247 |title=MR. SHAND, K.C. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=28,899 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 August 1930 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} and lived in retirement in Vaucluse, New South Wales, until his death at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189487004 |title=Death of Mr. A. Shand K.C. |newspaper=The Age |issue=29,465 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=4 October 1949 |accessdate=11 April 2016 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}