Mr Robert Waugh CRUICKSHANK (1873 - 1928)**

Date of Birth: 01/01/1873 Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland Date of Death: 06/11/1928 Place of Death: Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Council 30 Aug 1921 6 Nov 1928 7yr(s) 2mth(s) 8day(s) Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 30 August 1921. Acting Minister for Labour and Industry 27 May 1927 17 Sep 1927 3mth(s) 22day(s) Honorary Minister 27 May 1927 18 Sep 1927 3mth(s) 23day(s) Assistant Colonial Treasurer 19 Sep 1927 18 Oct 1927 30day(s)

Political Party Activity

Australian Labor Party (ALP). Active in an anti-conscription campaign, strong Lang supporter, ALP treasurer and campaign director in 1927.

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1914

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Journalist. Educated at Moray House and Heriott-Watt College, Edinburgh; employed as a librarian in Edinburgh and Glasgow; member of staff of John Menzies and Company., publishers; arrived in Brisbane in the early 1890s; worked on Sir Charles Lilley's Chronicle; edited Drakes Progress which soon folded; went to the Sun in Brisbane; contributor to Australian Worker; Reuters representative in Brisbane and Sydney; advertising representative for the Australian Worker from c.1911 and later for the Labor Daily. Helped to found a clerical and professional workers union in the 1890s.

Personal

Son of Robert John Cruickshank, tailor, and Isabel Drysdale. Married Maude Mary Leonard on 11 March 1920 at North Sydney and had issue, 1 daughter and 2 sons. Northern Suburbs Presbyterian cemetery.

Additional Information

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