[2] He was a lecturer at Sydney Law School and husband to Jessie Mary Grey, Lady Street, Australia's first female delegate to the United Nations.

[2] He was made a lieutenant of the 18th (North Sydney) Infantry Regiment in December 1915, and promoted to captain in September 1917, serving in the Adjutant General's Department, Army Headquarters, Melbourne.

[5] His younger brother Lieutenant Laurence Whistler Street was a fellow Sydney Law School student who enlisted before him and was killed in action during the Gallipoli campaign at age 21.

[4] Street enjoyed a wide general practice and would have taken silk but for his appointment to serve on the reconstituted Industrial Commission of New South Wales from 16 December 1927.

Confirmed in that office from 6 January 1950, he was sworn in on 7 February, thus becoming the second of three consecutive generations of the Street family to serve as Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales.