Fellows of Senate
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse
An early graduate of the University of Sydney (BA 1872 and MA 1875), His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse was a Fellow of Senate of the University of Sydney from 1887 to 1939. He was elected as Vice-Chancellor, by and from Fellows, from 1892 to 1894, 1896 to 1899 and 1911 to 1914. In 1912 he was confirmed as a lifetime Fellow of Senate.
Gallery
His student days at the University of Sydney
Backhouse was an undergraduate student from 1870 to 1872, graduating BA in 1873 and MA in 1875.
Alfred Paxton Backhouse (second from left) in the Football Club team in 1871, photo G3_224_0168, University of Sydney Archives.
His career
He became a barrister and judge.
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse in 1890, photo from the 'Australian Town and Country Journal', 5 April 1890, NLA Newspapers.
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse in 1913, photo from the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, digital order number a928725.
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse, photo from the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, digital order number gpo1_21611.
His membership of Senate
Backhouse was a Fellow of Senate of the University of Sydney from 1887 to 1939.
His Honour Judge Alfred Paxton Backhouse, photo G3_224_957, University of Sydney Archives
'Judge Backhouse's 80th birthday - the senior member of the Senate in his senatorial robes yesteday at Sydney University', photo from The Sydney Morning Herald, 30 May 1931