Mr Albert BRUNTNELL (1866 - 1929)**

Date of Birth: 04/05/1866 Place of Birth: Llanigon, Breconshire, Wales Date of Death: 31/01/1929 Place of Death: Pymble, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Notes Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 21 Jul 1906 31 Jan 1929 22yr(s) 6mth(s) 11day(s) Member for Surry Hills 21 Jul 1906 19 Aug 1907 1yr(s) 30day(s) 20th (1904 - 1907) Member for Annandale 14 Oct 1910 6 Nov 1913 3yr(s) 24day(s) 22nd (1910 - 1913) Member for Parramatta 12 Feb 1916 21 Feb 1917 1yr(s) 10day(s) 23rd (1913 - 1917) Member for Parramatta 24 Mar 1917 18 Feb 1920 2yr(s) 10mth(s) 26day(s) 24th (1917 - 1920) Member for Parramatta 20 Mar 1920 17 Feb 1922 1yr(s) 10mth(s) 29day(s) 25th (1920 - 1922) Member for Parramatta 25 Mar 1922 18 Apr 1925 3yr(s) 25day(s) 26th (1922 - 1925) Member for Parramatta 30 May 1925 7 Sep 1927 2yr(s) 3mth(s) 9day(s) 27th (1925 - 1927) Member for Parramatta 8 Oct 1927 31 Jan 1929 1yr(s) 3mth(s) 24day(s) 28th (1927 - 1930) Minister of Public Health 9 Feb 1920 12 Apr 1920 2mth(s) 4day(s) Minister of Public Instruction 13 Apr 1922 17 Jun 1925 3yr(s) 2mth(s) 5day(s) Colonial Secretary 18 Oct 1927 31 Jan 1929 1yr(s) 3mth(s) 14day(s) The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 2 Jul 1907 2 Jul 1907 1day 20th (1904 - 1907) Library Committee No.4 30 Nov 1910 23 Dec 1910 24days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Library Committee No.4 30 May 1911 1 Aug 1911 2mths 3days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Retirement of Mr James McKay from the Railway Department Committee No.9 15 Jun 1911 1 Aug 1911 1mth 18days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Chairman Daylight Saving Principle Committee No.11 28 Jun 1911 1 Aug 1911 1mth 5days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Printing Committee No.6 12 Sep 1911 27 Mar 1911 22nd (1910 - 1913) Library Committee No.4 12 Sep 1911 28 Mar 1912 6mths 17days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Retirement of James McKay from the Railway Department Committee No.11 4 Oct 1911 18 Oct 1911 15days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Daylight Saving Principle Committee No.15 12 Oct 1911 28 Mar 1912 5mths 17days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Totalisator Bill Committee No.19 31 Oct 1911 28 Mar 1912 4mths 27days 22nd (1910 - 1913) System of Discrimination in Freight Charges on the Railways Committee No.21 14 Nov 1911 28 Mar 1912 4mths 15days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Administration of the Rocks resumed Area Committee No.20 14 Nov 1911 28 Mar 1912 4mths 15days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Printing Committee No.6 7 Aug 1912 4 Dec 1912 3mths 28days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Library Committee No.4 7 Aug 1912 5 Dec 1912 3mths 29days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Administration of the Rocks Resumed Area Committee No.7 20 Aug 1912 5 Dec 1912 3mths 16days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Library Committee No.4 6 Aug 1913 15 Oct 1913 2mths 10days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Printing Committee No.6 6 Aug 1913 15 Oct 1913 2mths 10days 22nd (1910 - 1913) Church of England Trust Property Bill Committee No. 8 30 Nov 1916 21 Dec 1916 22days 23rd (1913 - 1917) The Governor's Opening Speech Committee No.1 17 Jul 1917 30 Mar 1918 8mths 14days 24th (1917 - 1920)

Political Party Activity

Liberal Party and Reform Party. Nationalist Party.

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace (JP) in 1909

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Salvation Army officer and estate agent. Educated in national schools and Salvation Army Training Institute, London; tailor by trade; Salvation Army officer in 1886, Captain in 1888, accompanied Commissioner Howard to Melbourne in 1888, appointed in Sydney and promoted to Staff Captain in 1889; transferred to Melbourne in 1893, and to New Zealand in 1894; Brigadier and colony commanding officer in Melbourne in 1897, Queensland in 1900, New South Wales in 1903, resigned in 1903, became a secretary of New South Wales Alliance from 1904 until 1909, general superintendent in 1910, vice president from 1911 until 1913, honorary life member; lecturer in temperence rallies in the United Kingdom, United States of America, and New Zealand.; joined auctioneers and agents firm in 1911, grand Chief Templar in 1907, attended International Grand Lodge Good Templars, Washington in 1908; active in the Australian Protestant Defence Association and Protestant Federation; director of Prince Alfred Hospital from 1924 until 1929, and of Sydney Hospital from 1922 until 1924.

Personal

Son of Edward Bruntnell, master blacksmith, and his wife Harriet Owens. Married Nellie Whittaker on 13 November 1891, and they had 6 daughters. Buried at North Sydney cemetery with Methodist and Salvation Army rites. Methodist.

Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), Volume 7

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