Hinchcliffe, Albert

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Hinchcliffe, Albert
Birth Date: 14 February 1860 (Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire)
Death Date: 4 January 1935 (Sydney, New South Wales)
Parents: Ezra Hinchcliffe and Alice (nee Gatside)
Family: (2) Frances May Hickman on 3 March 1913 at Sydney, 1 son, (1) Mary Ann Beer on 31 July 1883 at Toowoomba, 1 son
Education: Toowoomba State School
Religion: Christian Scientist

Career

Apprentice printer, Darling Downs Gazette, Toowoomba, 1874-1881; Printer, Courier, 1883; Printer, Telegraph, Brisbane, 1884-1887; Secretary, Queensland Typographical Society; General Secretary, Australian Labor Federation; Business manager, Worker, Brisbane, 1890-1917; Member, Royal Commission on Sugar, 1911-1912; Business manager, Australian Worker, Sydney, 1917-1925; Secretary, Queensland Trades and Labor Council

Party Positions:
  1. Secretary of Executive Council, Queensland Labor Party. 1892 - 1910

Parliamentary Representation

House Party Electorate From To Elected/Departure Reason
Council NONE Legislative Council 4 May 1904 23 Mar 1922 Council Abolished

Additional Information

Sources: Image courtesy of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Neg : 57540; Waterson, DB, A Biographical Register of the Queensland Parliament: 1860-1929, 2nd revised edition (Sydney: Casket Publications, 2001); Sullivan, Rodney, 'Hinchcliffe, Albert (1860-1935)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, V.9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 302-303
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