Sir Robert Menzies

Posted in 1913

  • Robert Menzies at University of Melbourne (fourth from left, second front row)Begins Law Degree at University of Melbourne after winning a State Scholarship and English Exhibition.

"His hard work and ability won him an exhibition for university study, and he entered Melbourne University in 1913 to study Law. By this time politics was becoming a family tradition: his uncle was a federal MP and his father had been elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly."
Video script Menzies in his time, 1994.