Edward Findley
Victoria | |
|---|---|
| In office 1 January 1904 – 30 June 1917 | |
| In office 1 July 1923 – 30 June 1929 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 September 1864 Bendigo, Victoria |
| Died | 26 October 1947 (aged 83) Caulfield, Victoria |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse | Lilian Foyle |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Edward Findley (8 September 1864 – 26 October 1947) was an Australian politician and publisher. He served as a
Victoria from 1904 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1929, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was also a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
from 1900 to 1901.
Early life
Findley was born in
Bendigo, Victoria (then called Sandhurst), and was apprenticed as a compositor on The Bendigo Independent before moving to Melbourne in the early 1880s to work on the Daily Telegraph, which closed in 1892. He became an active unionist and was elected president of the Australasian Typographical Union in 1897. He established a weekly newspaper, The Boomerang in 1894, but it ran for only eight issues. In 1896, he helped establish the Toscin, a radical union weekly, which continued in publication until 1906.[1]
Political career
Findley was elected as an
King Edward VII. Findley did not stand at the ensuing by-election in his seat, instead contesting the Melbourne East by-election on the same day. He was not successful, after the number of Liberal candidates opposing him was reduced to avoid vote splitting. He also stood unsuccessfully for the seat in 1902.[1]
Findley won a seat in the
Postmaster-General. In 1911, he married Lilian Foyle. He was defeated at the 1917 election, but returned to the Senate at the 1922 election. He was defeated again at the 1928 election.[1][2]
From 1930 until his death, Findley was a government director of the
British Petroleum in 1952. He died in his home in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield, survived by his wife and one of his two daughters.[1]
Notes
- ^ ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 February 2008.
- ^ Osborne, Graeme (2000). "FINDLEY, Edward (1864–1947)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
