Rupert Ryan
Rupert Ryan DSO | |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Flinders | |
| In office 21 September 1940 – 25 August 1952 | |
| Preceded by | James Fairbairn |
| Succeeded by | Keith Ewert |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 May 1884 Commander of the Military Order of Aviz (Portugal) |
Rupert Sumner Ryan, Australian Parliament for Flinders.
Early life
Ryan was born in
Ethel Marian "Maie" Sumner, would later marry Richard Casey. Ryan attended Geelong Church of England Grammar School 1895–98 before travelling to England to complete his education at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
.
Military service
In 1904, Ryan was commissioned in the
First World War, he was stationed on the Western Front. At the end of the war (1918) he was a lieutenant colonel, and was awarded three foreign honours and the Distinguished Service Order in 1918, having been wounded in 1915 in the Battle of Festubert
.
Ryan was the chief of staff to the governor of
Victoria to Edrington, the property he had inherited near Berwick. He and his sister built the station into a very successful Romney Marsh
stud; he also built a landing strip there in 1939.
Ryan was appointed a
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1928, and acted as high commissioner following Erroll's death until the end of the occupation. At his retirement from the army in 1929, he became an arms salesman with Vickers Ltd, in which capacity he travelled to Moscow and Bangkok
. He resigned in 1934.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, Ryan joined the Australian Military Forces, holding administrative posts until 1940, when he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for Flinders as a member of the United Australia Party
.
Federal politics
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Ryan was not particularly prominent in
cardiac failure
on 25 August 1952; he was cremated, and survived by his son.
References
- Langmore, Diane (2002). "Ryan, Rupert Sumner (1884–1952)". ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 16 March 2008.
