He was a partner in the law firm Allen, Street & Norton, director of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Company, and vice president of Sydney Hospital.

[2] His father descended from Baron Sir Thomas Street, an English Chief Justice who sat on the last King's Bench before the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

He was a director of the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Company (now Commonwealth Bank of Australia) and a vice president of Sydney Hospital.

In 1887, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for East Sydney, a position he held until his death in 1891.

Street's brother-in-law via his sister Sarah Maria was the Australian politician Thomas Whistler Smith, deputy chairman of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (now NAB).