{"id":171,"date":"2010-01-27T20:04:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T06:04:36","slug":"frank-mcalary-qc-1925-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/frank-mcalary-qc-1925-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank McAlary QC 1925-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank McAlary QC was a classic example of a bloke born in the bush who developed a very successful city career but maintained a life long love of the land. A passion that was able to be followed by purchasing properties such as Yeeda and Mount House in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia; and Bolivia, The Downs and Lombardy in the Glen Innes\/Tenterfield region of the New England Tableland (NSW).<\/p>\n<p>Frank was a <a title=\"Sydney Morning Herald obituary on Frank McAlary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/comment\/obituaries\/dancing-man-was-smooth-as-silk-20100128-n1kd.html\">born in 1925<\/a> and spent his first years on Emu Park Station near Warren before moving with his family to Sydney at the age of 13, several years after his father&#8217;s death. Frank had a very high profile career as a barrister and only retired when past his mid 70s, in 2002. One of 6 children, he and his wife Patricia had 8 children. Youngest daughter Caitlin Westlake lives on the Kimberley Station, Mount House, and eldest son Daniel on Lombardy. Frank Stratton McAlary died of a heart attack in Sydney on 17th January 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank McAlary QC was a classic example of a bloke born in the bush who developed a very successful city career but maintained a life long love of the land. A passion that was able to be followed by purchasing properties such as Yeeda and Mount House in the West Kimberley region of Western Australia; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[204,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4395,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/4395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}