Ernest Farrar (politician)

Ernest Henry Farrar (3 February 1879 16 June 1952) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire to iron moulder Henry Farrar and Mary Elizabeth Buckley. His family migrated to Sydney very soon after his birth and he was educated at Granville and Petersham, becoming a shearer. At the age of seventeen he joined the Australian Workers' Union, and travelled around Tasmania and New Zealand as a saddle maker. In 1902 he helped to found the Saddle and Harness Makers' Union, and from 1907 to 1912 he was foundation president and state secretary of the Australian Saddlery Trades Federation. In 1908 he married Susan Whitfield, with whom he had one son. He was also a member of the Trades and Labor Council from 1906 and its president in 1910. From 1908 to 1916 he was a member of the Australian Labor Party's central executive, serving as its vice-president in 1909, 1911 and from 1915 to 1916, and as its president from 1912 to 1914. In 1912 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council. He left the Labor Party in the 1916 Labor split over conscription, following fellow pro-conscription members into the Nationalist Party. He was Minister for Labour and Industry from 1922 to 1925 and from 1927 to 1930. Later a member of the United Australia Party and the Liberal Party, he was Chairman of Committees from 1934 to 1936, Acting President of the Legislative Council for six months in late 1938, Deputy President in early 1941, and President of the Legislative Council from 1946 until his death in Manly in 1952.[1]

References

  1. Parliament of New South Wales (2008). "Mr Ernest Henry Farrar (1879-1952)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
Party political offices
Preceded by
Hector Lamond
President of the Australian Labor Party (NSW Branch)
1912 – 1914
Succeeded by
Richard Meagher
Political offices
Preceded by
Edward Kavanagh
Minister for Labour and Industry
1922 – 1925
Succeeded by
Jack Baddeley
Preceded by
Jack Baddeley
Minister for Labour and Industry
1927 – 1930
Succeeded by
Jack Baddeley
New South Wales Legislative Council
Preceded by
Broughton O'Conor
Chairman of Committees
1934 – 1946
Succeeded by
Thomas Steele
Preceded by
Sir John Peden
President of the New South Wales Legislative Council
1946 – 1952
Succeeded by
William Dickson
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