Mr George Edward ARDILL (1889 - 1964)

Date of Birth: 18/10/1889
Place of Birth: Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 13/07/1964
Place of Death: Concord, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Parliament
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly	25 Oct 1930	18 Apr 1941	10yr(s) 5mth(s) 25day(s)
Member for Yass	25 Oct 1930	18 May 1932	1yr(s) 6mth(s) 24day(s)	29th (1930 - 1932)
Member for Yass	11 Jun 1932	12 Apr 1935	2yr(s) 10mth(s) 2day(s)	30th (1932 - 1935)
Member for Yass	11 May 1935	24 Feb 1938	2yr(s) 9mth(s) 14day(s)	31st (1935 - 1938)
Member for Yass	26 Mar 1938	18 Apr 1941	3yr(s) 24day(s)	32nd (1938 - 1941)
Government Whip	1937	1941	4yr(s) 1day(s)

Political Party Activity

Nationalist Party. United Australia Party (UAP).

Community Activity

Foundation President of the Sound Finance League of Australia in 1933. Member of the Aborigines Protection Board (from 1940, the Aborigines Welfare Board) from 1936 until 1945. Executive Director of the Society for Providing Homes for Neglected Children from 1945 until 1964. Secretary of the Gunning Pastoral, Agricultural and Industrial Society. Founder of the Gunning Amateur Dramatic Society. Branch Secretary of the Primary Producers Union and Graziers Association.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Dairy farmer, grazier and auctioneer. Educated at Stanmore public school and Newington College. After leaving school, became a dairy farmer at Coraki, buying a grazing property at Gunning in 1916. Was also a stock and station agent and auctioneer, later owning a motor garage. Contested the seat of Goulburn in the 1941 elections; and the seat of Hawkesbury in the 1944 elections for the Democratic Party. Freemason. Methodist lay preacher, Gunning circuit

Local Government Activity

Councillor of the Gunning Shire Council 1920 until 1934 and 1938 until 1941 ; President, Gunning Shire Council 1923 and 1927 until 1928

Personal

Son of George Edward Ardill, evangelist and social worker, and his wife, Louisa Wales, evangelist. Married Emma Booth on 7 June 1911, and had issue 1 son and 5 daughters. Funeral at Northern Suburbs Crematorium with Baptist rites.

Additional Information

Goulburn 'Evening Post' 30 July 1964, 5 'Sydney Morning Herald' 23 May 1932, 6b Jack Horner, 'Vote Ferguson for Aboriginal Freedom: a Biography', Sydney, 1974

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