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Mr Albert BRUNTNELL (1866 - 1929)

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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
Colonial Secretary 18 Oct 1927 31 Jan 1929 1 year 3 months 14 days
Member for Parramatta 08 Oct 1927 31 Jan 1929 1 year 3 months 24 days
Member for Parramatta 30 May 1925 07 Sep 1927 2 years 3 months 9 days
Minister of Public Instruction 13 Apr 1922 17 Jun 1925 3 years 2 months 5 days
Member for Parramatta 25 Mar 1922 18 Apr 1925 3 years 25 days
Member for Parramatta 20 Mar 1920 17 Feb 1922 1 year 10 months 29 days
Minister of Public Health 09 Feb 1920 12 Apr 1920 2 months 4 days
The Governor's Opening Speech Committee No.1 17 Jul 1917 30 Mar 1918 8 months 14 days
Member for Parramatta 24 Mar 1917 18 Feb 1920 2 years 10 months 26 days
Church of England Trust Property Bill Committee No. 8 30 Nov 1916 21 Dec 1916 22 days
Member for Parramatta 12 Feb 1916 21 Feb 1917 1 year 10 days
Library Committee No.4 06 Aug 1913 15 Oct 1913 2 months 10 days
Printing Committee No.6 06 Aug 1913 15 Oct 1913 2 months 10 days
Administration of the Rocks Resumed Area Committee No.7 20 Aug 1912 05 Dec 1912 3 months 16 days
Library Committee No.4 07 Aug 1912 05 Dec 1912 3 months 29 days
Printing Committee No.6 07 Aug 1912 04 Dec 1912 3 months 28 days
Administration of the Rocks resumed Area Committee No.20 14 Nov 1911 28 Mar 1912 4 months 15 days
System of Discrimination in Freight Charges on the Railways Committee No.21 14 Nov 1911 28 Mar 1912 4 months 15 days
Totalisator Bill Committee No.19 31 Oct 1911 28 Mar 1912 4 months 28 days
Daylight Saving Principle Committee No.15 12 Oct 1911 28 Mar 1912 5 months 17 days
Retirement of James McKay from the Railway Department Committee No.11 04 Oct 1911 18 Oct 1911 15 days
Library Committee No.4 12 Sep 1911 28 Mar 1912 6 months 17 days
Printing Committee No.6 12 Sep 1911 27 Mar 1911 0 days
Daylight Saving Principle Committee No.11 28 Jun 1911 01 Aug 1911 1 month 5 days
Retirement of Mr James McKay from the Railway Department Committee No.9 15 Jun 1911 01 Aug 1911 1 month 18 days Chairman
Library Committee No.4 30 May 1911 01 Aug 1911 2 months 3 days
Library Committee No.4 30 Nov 1910 23 Dec 1910 24 days
Member for Annandale 14 Oct 1910 06 Nov 1913 3 years 24 days
The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 02 Jul 1907 02 Jul 1907 1 day
Member for Surry Hills 21 Jul 1906 19 Aug 1907 1 year 30 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 21 Jul 1906 31 Jan 1929 22 years 6 months 11 days
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.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
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