Walter Bradley (Australian politician)

Walter Bradley (1 November 1836 27 June 1893) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born at Hackney near London to Royal Mint assayer George Robert Bradley and Eliza Cave. He arrived in Sydney in 1854 and worked as an auctioneer at Wynyard. In 1859 he co-founded his own firm of Bradley, Norton and Lamb. On 31 March 1859 he married Emily Hobbs, with whom he had fifteen children. He was a long-serving Randwick alderman, being thrice mayor, and was a founder of the Zoological Society of New South Wales and the Moore Park Zoological Gardens. He retired from his auctioneers' firm in 1887. In 1891 he was elected in a by-election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Protectionist member for East Sydney, but he was defeated in the general election later that year. Bradley died at Randwick in 1893.[1]

References

  1. "Mr Walter Bradley (1836 - 1893)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. 2008. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
John Street
Member for East Sydney
1891
Served alongside: Burdekin, McMillan, Reid
Succeeded by
Edmund Barton
Varney Parkes
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