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Mr Frederick Earle WINCHCOMBE (1855 - 1917)

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Date of Birth: 26/04/1855
Place of Birth: Brunswick, Victoria, Australia
Date of Death: 29/06/1917
Place of Death: Bombay, India
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 02 Oct 1907 29 Jun 1917 9 years 8 months 28 days Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 24 September 1907
Member for Ashfield 06 Aug 1904 03 Aug 1905 11 months 29 days
Member for Ashfield 22 Jun 1901 16 Jul 1904 3 years 25 days
Member for Ashfield 10 Nov 1900 11 Jun 1901 7 months 2 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 10 Nov 1900 03 Aug 1905 4 years 8 months 25 days
Political Party Activity
Liberal and Reform (later National) Association; councillor.
Community Activity
President of Sydney Chamber of Commerce 1914 - 1915, organising their War Food Fund; member of the wartime State Wool Committee, which he helped to organise; a foundation member of the Universal Service League in 1915; vice president of Soldiers Club in 1915. Member of Board of Health from 1907 until 1910. Vice president of Royal Agricultural Society. Commissioner of Chicago Exposition in 1893. Inaugural President of the Wildlife Preservation Society of Australia; elected on 19 May 1909 when the Society was inaugurated at a public meeting.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Woolbroker; stock and station agent. Educated at Christ Church School at Sydney. Joined firm of Mort & Co. and became a wool expert and auctioneer; left after Mort & Co. amalgamated with Goldsborough & Co in 1888 In 1889 with Carson, Wallis and Turton formed Winchcombe, Carson & Co Limited, of which he was later chairman of directors. Chairman of Ruthven Pastoral Company; director of the AMP Society, James Martin & Co. Ltd, and of the Atlas Insurance Company. Temperance advocate. Member of Christ Church Improvement Association. His book, 'As It Strikes Me' , a republication of a series of articles outlining his political views originally published in the Brisbane 'Monthly Record', was published in 1916.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Second son of John Phillimore Winchcombe, quarryman, and Julia Sophia Earle. Married Anne Amelia Henson on 5 October 1878 and had issue, 2 daughters and 2 sons. Church of England. His daughter Edyth married Sir Thomas Bavin, also a Member of the Legislative Assembly (and Premier of New South Wales).
Additional Information
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12

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