Sir Frederick Wollaston Mann KCMG (2 May 1869 – 29 May 1958) was the chief justice of the Australian state of Victoria between 1 October 1935 and 31 January 1944.
Mann’s maternal grandfather was John Ramsden Wollaston, a pioneering Anglican archdeacon in Western Australia.
[3] Mann began his education at Christ Church Grammar School in Mount Gambier.
As a barrister, he specialized in both common law and Equity cases, and became known for his “careful cross-examination technique”.
On 8 April 1911 he married Adeline Mary Raleigh at All Saints Church of England in East St Kilda.
He was knighted in the King's Birthday Honours of June 1933, formally receiving his knighthood by Letters Patent on 12 July 1933.
In 1936, he denounced Victorian police criminal investigation methods of the time as “crude, untrained and overly reliant upon informers and physical coercion”.
The Melbourne newspaper “The Sun” described him as 'lucid, fearless, cold, crisp, alert, analytical, unostentatious and retiring … dignified and decorous'.