Andrew Garran

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Andrew Garran
Portrait of Garran in 1896
Vice-President of Executive Council and Representative of Government, New South Wales Legislative Council
In office
19 March 1895 – 18 November 1898
New South Wales Legislative Council
In office
8 March 1887 – 19 October 1892
Personal details
Born(1825-11-19)November 19, 1825
Darlinghurst, New South Wales
Spouse
Mary Isham Sabine
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(m. 1852; wid. 1901)​
Children
Newspaper editor
  • Politician

    • Andrew Garran (19 November 1825 – 6 June 1901),

    Sydney Morning Herald
    from 1873 to 1885.

    Biography

    Garran was born in

    Madeira Islands seeking a better climate, returning to London the following year. In 1850 he moved to Australia, where he settled in Adelaide, South Australia.[3]

    On arrival in Adelaide he worked briefly as a minister, and from 1851 to 1852 he wrote for the short-lived weekly newspaper

    T. Q. Stow (née Eppes).[1]

    Andrew and Mary Garran left South Australia in 1856 for

    Doctorate of Laws in 1870. When the editor of the Herald, John West, died in December 1873, Garran was promptly promoted. Garran was one of the earliest supporters of the federation of Australia, and used his position in the media to advocate the cause, writing many editorials in favour of federation.[5] He served as editor until 1885, when poor health forced him to resign, after spending nearly thirty years at the newspaper.[3]

    However, Garran did not retire completely, and on 15 February 1887 was given a life appointment to the

    Royal Commission into the 1890 Australian maritime dispute. In 1892 he resigned from the Legislative Council in order to take up the position of president of the New South Wales Council of Arbitration, although he resigned from that position in 1894 and re-entered the Legislative Council. From March 1895 to November 1898, Garran was the leader of the Reid government in the Legislative Council, and vice-president of the Executive Council of New South Wales.[3][6]

    Throughout his career Garran held a number of other positions. He was a director of the Newcastle Wallsend Coal Company from 1869, and the chairman from 1874 to 1879. He was a member of the New South Wales Board of Technical Education, and was a trustee of Sydney Grammar School. He was the correspondent for London's The Times for many years, continuing up until his death.[3]

    Garran died on 6 June 1901(1901-06-06) (aged 75), in the Sydney suburb of

    Darlinghurst.[7] He was survived by his wife and six of his eight children. His son Robert Garran also studied law, and went on to become a leading expert in Australian constitutional law, together with John Quick writing The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth.[3]

    References

    1. ^
      The Register (Adelaide)
      . Vol. XC, no. 26, 411. South Australia. 20 August 1925. p. 12. Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
    2. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8497.1972.tb00603.x
      .
    3. ^ a b c d e Serle, Percival (1949). "Garran, Andrew". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
    4. ISSN 1833-7538
      . Retrieved 2 September 2021.
    5. ^ a b Zines, Leslie (2005). "Sir Robert Garran" (PDF). Australian Senate Occasional Lecture Series. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2006. Retrieved 14 April 2006.
    6. ^ "Mr Andrew Garran (1825-1901)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
    7. ^ "Death of Dr Garran". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 June 1901. p. 5. Retrieved 2 September 2021 – via Trove.
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