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Mr Edgar Layton Bean [B 7052] • Photograph

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[General description] Head and upper body portrait of the Mr Edgar Layton Bean contrasted against a dark background. He had a brilliant career as a public servant, was a close confidant of Sir Thomas Playford and was knighted in 1955. [On back of photograph] 'Mr Edgar Layton Bean: Parliamentary Draftsman / Photograph taken in 1926' [Newspaper article on back of photograph] 'One of the most brilliant and valuable officers of the Public Service, the Parliamentary Draughtsman (Mr. E.L. Bean) will be credited throughout the service and the legal profession with having richly deserved the C.M.G. which has been conferred upon him. Apart from his purely legal and Parliamentary work, he has been of great service to the Government in connnection with a number of matters of importance. He is a member of the permanent advisory committee appointed to keep the government informed on the working of the Road Traffic Act, and the chairman of the statutory committee responsible for the fixation of rates under the compulsory third party insurance of motor vehicles. He has been in charge of a three year task of consolidating the laws of the State, and condensing and simplifying them for publication in nine volumes, the first of which are now coming off the presses. Mr . Bean was deputy chairman of the committee which drafted the Road Traffic Bill, chairman of a committee which drafted the uniform taxation law for all States and a member of the first committee which formulated schemes for farmer's relief. For three years he was chairman of the Local Government Commission which revised the whole of the local government areas of the State. He was born in Melbourne 44 years ago. However he received his early education at Scotch College, Claremont, Western Australia. Subsequently he came to Adelaide and studied at the Adelaide University. He graduated with first class honours in classics. He went to England in 1914 to continue his studies and, on the outbreak of war he joined the British Expeditionary Force. He was three years in the front line with a trench mortar battery and was wounded in 1918. After the Armistice, he graduated B.A. in 1919 in London and took his M.A. two years later. Returning to Adelaide he took his L.L.B. degree in 1922. He entered the Crown Law Department in 1919 and was appointed Parliamentary Draughtsman in 1926'.

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Physical description

Photograph; 20.4 cm x 15.6 cm

Dates / Publication details

1926

Photographer

Hammer & Co

Collection

Part of Portrait Collection

Subject

Bean, Edgar Layton, Sir

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Digitisation information

Date

04/10/2005

Format

image/tiff

Resolution

2,412 x 3,159 pixels (7.6 MP)

Size

7.64 MB

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