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[[File:Edward_Albert_Stone.png|thumb|Stone in 1888]]
Sir '''Edward Albert Stone'''  {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|KCMG}} (9 March 1844 – 2 April 1920) was an [[Australians|Australian]] [[lawyer]], [[Lieutenant governor (Australia)|lieutenant governor]], [[politician]] and the fourth [[Chief Justice of Western Australia]].<ref name="adb">F. M. Robinson, '[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120114b.htm Stone, Sir Edward Albert (1844 - 1920)]', ''[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]'', Volume 12, [[Melbourne University Press|MUP]], 1990, p. 98. Retrieved 28 March 2010</ref>

Stone was born in [[Perth]], Western Australia, the second son<ref name=adbGFS>
Alfred H. Chate, '[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020450b.htm Stone, George Frederick (1812 - 1875)]', ''[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]'', Volume 2, [[Melbourne University Press|MUP]], 1967, p. 489. Retrieved 28 March 2010
</ref> and third of nine children of<ref name=adb/>  [[George Frederick Stone]], an early attorney-general of the colony of Western Australia.<ref name=adbGFS/> Edward Stone was educated at [[Chigwell School]], [[Essex]], [[England]] and then joined his father's [[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]] law firm<ref name=adb/> in 1860 and was [[called to the bar]] in 1865. Stone was clerk of the [[Western Australian Legislative Council|Legislative Council]] 1870–74, and acting attorney-general, and acting judge of the [[Supreme Court of Western Australia]] 1879–1883.<ref name=adb/>

Stone was appointed a [[puisne judge]] of the Supreme Court in 1883 and succeeded [[Alexander Onslow|Sir Alexander Onslow]] as Chief Justice in 1901, a position he held until 1906 when health problems forced his retirement.<ref name=adb/> Stone once addressed a man appearing in his own defence: "You may be poor, but you are still entitled to justice."<ref name=adb/> Stone was made a [[knight bachelor]] on 15 August 1902,<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1083157 It's an Honour: Knight Bachelor]</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27465 |date=15 August 1902|page=5327|supp=}}</ref> after the honour had been announced in the [[1902 Coronation Honours]] list published on 26 June 1902.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Coronation Honours |date=26 June 1902 |page=5 |issue=36804}}</ref> In 1912 he was made a [[Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (KCMG).<ref>[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1082490 It's an Honour: KCMG]</ref>

In addition to his career as a lawyer and judge, Stone was a member of the [[Church of England]] and was involved in various philanthropic, educational and cultural movements in Western Australia.

Stone died in Perth, aged 76, on 2 April 1920 and was survived by his wife, Susannah Shenton.<ref name=adb/>

==References==
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*{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Edward Albert|Last=Stone|shortlink=0-dict-biogSt-Sy.html#stone1}}

==See also==
* [[Judiciary of Australia]]

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