Paris Nesbit KC
Quixotic Counsel
$87.50
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
10 April 2026
Summary
Paris Nesbit KC (1852-1927), a brilliant leader of the South Australian Bar for more than 20 years, was hailed in life ‘as a man of wide culture and scholarship, a poet, an iconoclast, a reformer and a lover of humanity without guile or cynicism’, and eulogised in death as ‘quite the most striking personality in South Australia … almost a legendary figure, one of Australia’s great and beloved sons’. To his detractors he was egotistical, opinionated, immoral, erratic and mad. Intellectually gi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923388710 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1923388711 |
| Author: | Graham Loughlin |
| Publisher: | Wakefield Press |
| Imprint: | Wakefield Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 10 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 1.18kg |
| Dimensions: | 50mm x 158mm x 235mm |
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Graham Loughlin
Graham Loughlin is a history graduate of the University of Adelaide. He spent several years in education, initially as a secondary teacher and later as a lecturer at Murray Park College of Advanced Education.
He then served as the first Research Officer appointed in the South Australian Parliamentary Library. Loughlin subsequently held positions as a speech writer with the New South Wales Leader of the Opposition and policy adviser with the South Australian Premier and Treasurer.
In the 1980s, he moved to senior executive roles in the Credit Union industry, first in South Australia and then nationally. He is now retired and lives in Sydney.
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