Don Laidlaw
Donald Hope Laidlaw AO LL.B., B.Litt.(Oxon) (6 August 1923 – 14 April 2009)[1] was a lawyer, businessman, and politician in South Australia.
Biography
Laidlaw was educated at St. Peter's College, then studied Law and Literature at Adelaide University and Magdalen College, Oxford.[2] He was called to the bar in 1948.[3]
During World War II he served in the
AIF Intelligence Corps as a Japanese interpreter[2] including a brief stint in 1942-1943 at the Loveday Camp in rural South Australia.[4]
Laidlaw was elected as a
He was appointed an
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 1989 Australia Day Honours for "service to secondary industry, the South Australian Parliament and to the community".[6]
He was a member of the
Bennett and Fisher and Johns Perry Ltd.[2]
Personal life
His father was Lyndley Hope Laidlaw of Victoria Avenue, Unley Park.
He married (Audrey) Vivienne Perry LLB (29 July 1925–14 March 1964), a daughter of
Frank Tennyson Perry, on 2 February 1948. Their eldest daughter, Diana Laidlaw
, was a noted South Australian politician.
He married again, to Vivienne's sister Margaret Pauline (18 July 1917 – 16 October 2011).[2]
References
- ^ a b "Former Member of the Parliament of South Australia". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0 86832 0129
- ^ "Students admitted to SA Bar". The News. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 20 December 1948. p. 12. Retrieved 14 December 2014. In the accompanying photograph, Don Laidlaw is next to Don Dunstan.
- ^ "Donald Laidlaw". Loveday Lives. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
- ^ "Donald (Don) Hope Laidlaw AO". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
- ^ "Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) entry for Mr Donald Hope LAIDLAW". Australian Honours Database. Canberra, Australia: Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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