Sir Alan James Mansfield KCMG, KCVO, was Governor of Queensland, Australia between 1966 and 1972. He was born in Brisbane in 1902 and educated in Sydney. He became a lawyer and went on to represent Australia on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. He was Chief Justice of Queensland from 1956 to 1966 during which time he was Acting Governor of Queensland on several occasions. In 1958 he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). He was appointed Governor of Queensland in 1966 and also appointed Chancellor of the University of Queensland at the same time. The Mansfield family had land in Gumdale and Sir Alan lived in the Mount Gravatt area for many years. The suburb of Mansfield, Queensland in the city of Brisbane, Australia was named after Sir Alan. List of Governors of Queensland See Governors of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Governor. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... President of the Tribunal, Sir William Webb, Justice of the High Court of Australia, presiding over the Tribunal in 1946. ... The United Nations War Crimes Commission (initially called the United Nations Commission for the Investigation of War Crimes) was a commission of the United Nations that investigated allegations of war crimes committed by the Nazi Germany and its allies in World War Two. ... List of Governors of Queensland See Governors of the Australian states for a description and history of the office of Governor. ... The University of Queensland (UQ) has its main campus in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, specifically in the suburb of St Lucia. ... Mount Gravatt is a suburb of Brisbane. ... Mansfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, situated approximately 11 kilometres south-east of the CBD. It is located in the region of the city which is coloquially known as the Bible Belt due to the large number of people who have settled there to be close to Christian schools... Brisbane (pronounced ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and is the third largest city in Australia, with a population of just under 2 million. ...
Mansfield is a suburb of Brisbane, Australia, situated approximately 11 kilometres south-east of the CBD.
Mansfield has regular bus services to the CBD and to the Westfield Garden City Shopping Centre at Upper Mount Gravatt.
Recently reopened, the "Rock Arena" at the Mansfield Tavern was in its heyday a popular venue for touring musical acts and has starred such acts as The Offspring, Hunters and Collectors, Madness, Hoodoo Gurus and The Angels.
Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington in 1888.
Mansfield’s juvenilia is no more or less mawkish than the youthful work of any writer; what is occasionally noteworthy is the degree to which the future figure of the artist can be heard sounding her characteristic notes.
Mansfield was drawn to Lawrence—he was, after all, another outsider in the English literary world—but her journal also records her impatience with what she saw as Lawrence’s reductive view of human nature: ‘I shall never see sex in trees, sex, in the running brooks, sex in stones and sex in everything.
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