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3 unusual facts about Basil Helmore


Basil Helmore

Born at Newcastle to company secretary Ernest Arthur James Helmore and Gertrude, née Allbon, he attended local state schools and in 1913 was first in the state in French and Latin for the Leaving certificate.

Helmore also edited four legal textbooks and qualified by correspondence for his Bachelor of Law (1933) and PhD (1955) from the University of London.

Helmore contested the Senate unsuccessfully in 1937 as a United Australia Party candidate; he would also make an unsuccessful attempt to enter the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1948.



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