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

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

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

  1. ^ a b "Hon Ernest Harry Edmonds". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
  2. ^ Donald McLean, William Pitt Barker, John Barker, and Mrs. Agnes May Chambers of South Australia
  3. ^ a b Who's Who in Australia 1950
  4. ^ "Out among the people". The Chronicle. 2 November 1944. p. 35. Retrieved 3 December 2014 – via Trove.