Edward Guye

Edward Fritz Guye (born 1888) was an Australian politician who sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1940 to 1958.

Guye was born in Brentford, England, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover. His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London.[1] His father died in 1901 and Guye emigrated to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. He enlisted in the AIF on 2 September 1914, and was sent to Europe in October. He returned to Australia in 1916.[2]

In 1940 Guye was elected as Country Party/Liberal Country Party representative for the Electoral district of Polwarth in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. In 1949 he became Minister of Transport and a Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works.[3]

Guye's brother Denis Guye, who remained in England was an Olympic rower.

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