Roland Green (Australian politician)

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Roland Green
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Richmond
In office
16 December 1922 – 23 October 1937
Preceded byWalter Massy-Greene
Succeeded byLarry Anthony
Personal details
Born(1885-10-29)29 October 1885
Died27 April 1947(1947-04-27) (aged 61)
Nationality
Australian Country Party

Roland Frederick Herbert Green (29 October 1885 – 27 April 1947) was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1922 to 1937, representing the electorate of Richmond in New South Wales.

Green was born at

Armidale; he also took up a farm, "Pine Vale", at Woolomin.[1][2][3][4][5]

After six years in the army reserve with the Australian Light Horse, Green enlisted in the military at the outbreak of

Battle of Gallipoli and on the Western Front; he was shot once at Gallipoli, recuperated with a long hospital stay and return to Australia in 1916, before re-embarking in November 1916. He served until again injured when he lost a leg at the Battle of Menin Road in Belgium, in September 1917. He returned to Australia on 30 June 1918 and returned to his farm at Woolomin. He was a co-founder and the first vice-president of the Limbless and Maimed Soldiers' Association, a member of the Tamworth Pastures Protection Board, and was an unsuccessful Progressive Party candidate at the 1922 state election.[1][6][3][7][4]

To general surprise, Green won the

Larry Anthony (senior), another Country Party candidate.[6][10]

Green had relocated to Manly in Sydney during the 1920s,[11] and after leaving politics studied law at the University of Sydney; enrolling at 53, he was claimed at the time to have been the oldest student in the history of the Sydney Law School.[12] He was subsequently admitted to the bar in March 1942,[13] and worked as a barrister until ill health caused him to cease practice in June 1946. He made three attempts at re-entering politics, as a Country Party candidate at the 1938 state election,[14] an abortive Country Party Senate preselection bid at the 1943 federal election,[15] and unsuccessful Liberal preselection attempt at the a resulting by-election.[16] He died at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney in April 1947 at the age of 61.[17][18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lieut. R. F. H. Green". The Land. 24 November 1922. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  2. ^ "Members of parliament and legislatures" (PDF). Sydney High School Old Boys Union. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Roland Frederick Herbert Green". AIF Project. Australian Defence Force Academy. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b "The elections". The Newcastle Sun. 18 March 1920. p. 1. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  5. ^ "Political". The Scone Advocate. 17 February 1922. p. 2. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  6. ^ a b "Commonwealth Members of Parliament who have served in war" (PDF). Parliamentary Library. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Mr. R. F. H. Green congratulated". Casino and Kyogle Courier and North Coast Advertiser. 10 January 1923. p. 2. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  8. ISSN 1833-7538
    . Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  9. Tweed Daily
    . 28 November 1927. p. 2. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  10. ^ "Anthony elected for Richmond". The Kyogle Examiner. 2 November 1937. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  11. ^ "No political glamour". The Kyogle Examiner. 23 April 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  12. ^ "Barrister Soon: Mr. R. F. H. Green". Glen Innes Examiner. 21 November 1939. p. 7. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  13. ^ "Now a barrister". The Kyogle Examiner. 17 March 1942. p. 4. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  14. Tweed Daily
    . 9 March 1938. p. 3. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  15. ^ "No C.P. Senate candidate". The Age. 7 July 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  16. ^ "Ex-Richmond M.H.R. seeks Liberal Party state nomination". Northern Star. 22 August 1945. p. 5. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  17. Tweed Daily
    . 28 April 1947. p. 2. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.
  18. ^ "Mr R. F. H. Green, Former MHR, dies". The Mercury. 28 April 1947. p. 3. Retrieved 26 December 2019 – via Trove.

 

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Member for Richmond
1922–1937 		Succeeded by
Larry Anthony
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