Sir Percy Ernest Joske, CMG QC (5 October 1895 – 25 April 1981) was an Australian lawyer, politician and judge.
[1] Joske attended Wesley College, Melbourne, where he was classmates with future prime minister Robert Menzies.
Appointed King's Counsel in 1944, he was the editor of the Victorian Law Reports from 1936 to 1956, lectured part-time at the University of Melbourne and wrote several legal textbooks.
[1] He was widowed in 1968 and remarried in 1969 to Hilda Dorothy Larcombe (née Thomas), a cousin of his first wife.
[4] After their marriage he moved from Melbourne to Sydney, settling in her Georgian-revival mansion Somerset in the suburb of Strathfield, which was later acquired by Trinity Grammar School.
[1] Outside of his parliamentary and judicial careers, Joske served as president of the Royal Life Saving Society Australia from 1951 to 1979.