sentences:  Street was born in Sydney on 9 August 1863, the second son of John Rendell Street and Susanna Caroline (née Lawson).His father was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1887 and 1891 and his mother was the daughter of William Lawson, one of the three explorers who made the first settler crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813.Street attended Sydney Grammar School and Sydney Law School.