Alan Lind

Alan Alfred Campbell Lind AO (20 April 1913 – 5 December 1988) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Bairnsdale to baker Willie Arthur Lind and Nora Madeline Smith. His uncle was Sir Alfred Lind, a long-serving state MP. He attended state schools locally and then Melbourne High School and Melbourne Teachers' College. He became a schoolteacher, and from 1942 to 1944 served with the Field Artillery as a gunner in the Middle East and New Guinea. On 16 April 1938 he had married Lilian McCann, with whom he had three children. He taught at Mildura from 1945 to 1952, when he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Mildura. He was defeated in 1955 and returned to teaching, becoming principal of the state school at Hallam from 1964 to 1969. In 1969 he was returned to the Assembly as the member for Dandenong, serving until his retirement in 1979. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1978. On 28 August 1977 he married Marie McKenzie, née Lindemann. Lind died in 1988.^[1]

References

1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Lind, Alan Alfred Campbell". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 8 November 2015.