Background
Paton was born on 16 August 1902 in Geelong, Victoria. His parents were Frank Hume Lyall Paton (son of John Gibson Paton) and Clara Sophia Heyer.
Paton was born on 16 August 1902 in Geelong, Victoria. His parents were Frank Hume Lyall Paton (son of John Gibson Paton) and Clara Sophia Heyer.
Doctor of Laws (Glas, Syd, Qld, Tas, Lond, and Monash), Doctorate.C.L. (West Ontario), M.A (16 August 1902 – 16 June 1985) was an Australian legal scholar and Vice Chancellor of Melbourne University. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne (1914–1920), and then Melbourne University (1921–1925).
Paton became a Barrister-at-Law in 1927 and lectured in law at the London School of Economics. In 1931 he was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Melbourne and became Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1943. In 1951 he was appointed Vice-Chancellor of Melbourne University and held the position until his retirement in 1968.
After retirement he was President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Incorporated.
(ANZSOC) from 1969 to 1971
Paton"s major published work, A Text-Book of Jurisprudence, appeared in 1940 and went through further editions. In Australia and elsewhere, it was (in one reviewer"s words) "to many students the text-book of jurisprudence".
On 5 February 1953, Paton was appointed Chairman of the Royal Commission on Television in Australia. Its object was to enable Australia to profit from the experience of other countries in introducing and controlling television
The enquiry considered the numbers of national and commercial channels to be established, the economics involved and standards to be observed.
Other members of the commission were C.B. Bednall, Mistress Maud Foxton, Radh Govinda Osborne, Roman Catholic Wilson and North.S. Young.