Harry Edmonds
Ernest Harry Edmonds (28 August 1883 – 8 April 1962),[1] always referred to as "Harry Edmonds" or E. H. Edmonds, was a politician in South Australia.
History[edit]
Harry Edmonds was born at McLean & Barker's[2] Comongin Station, near Quilpie, Queensland, the only son of John Hinton Edmonds (c. 1846 – 23 January 1889) and Mary Louisa Edmonds née Puplett ( – ), and educated at Pulteney Street School.[3]
He was a share-farmer at Cowell then moved to Pygery 1917 where he was a farmer and grazier.[4]
He was appointed J.P. in 1928, and was a councillor in the LeHunte District Council, and its chairman in 1932. He was Chairman of the Central Eyre Peninsula Hospital board in 1937. In 1944 he was elected to a Northern district seat on the Legislative Council for the Liberal and Country League. He retired from farming to Adelaide, living at 12 Allen Avenue, Brooklyn Park,[3] and held the seat in Parliament until February 1962, when he retired. He died in hospital two months later.[1]
Family[edit]
He married Mabel Jane Haines (c. 1883 – 12 September 1946) daughter of George Haines (c. 1844 – 23 July 1930) on 13 April 1910. They had one daughter and three sons:
- eldest son John Hinton "Jack" Edmonds (9 February 1911 – 1990) married Ella C. Osborn on 10 March 1934
- Raymond Franklin "Ray" Edmonds (12 April 1916 – 2008)
- Ralph Haines Edmonds (11 Mar 1912 – 1988)
- Gwenyth Cecilia Mabel Edmonds (19 Dec 1918 – 2003) married Reginald J. Moxon (died 2011) on 29 September 1944
He married again, to Ellen "Nell" Baird on 28 March 1950.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Hon Ernest Harry Edmonds". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
- ^ Donald McLean, William Pitt Barker, John Barker, and Mrs. Agnes May Chambers of South Australia
- ^ a b Who's Who in Australia 1950
- ^ "Out among the people". The Chronicle. 2 November 1944. p. 35. Retrieved 3 December 2014 – via Trove.