Frank Gavan Duffy, born on February 29, 1852 at Dublin, studied at Stonyhurst College and University of Melbourne who only served as the fourth Chief Justice of Australia before changing career paths.
He agreed to retire from the bench in 1935, at age eighty-three, to make way for John Latham. He had planned to deliver a series of lectures on Australian constitutional law at Harvard University's tercentenary early in 1936, but was too ill. He died after a brief illness on 29 July 1936, at Mount St Evin's Private Hospital, Fitzroy. 
