Wilfred Blacket

Wilfred Blacket KC (27 September 1859 – 6 February 1937) was an Australian barrister.

He was born in Sydney to clerk Russell Blacket and Alicia Jackson.

He married Gertrude Louisa Lovegrove on 24 April 1894, by which time he had a successful and substantial practice.

[2] Around 1900 Blacket became secretary to the Statute Law Consolidation Commission, but he was not appointed to the Supreme Court despite his obvious qualifications.

In 1912 he took silk, and practised mainly in the High Court, where he became known as a radical with unionist sympathies.