Walter Gordon Duncan

This article is about the South Australian MLC. For the Burra MHA, see Walter Hughes Duncan.

Sir Walter Gordon Duncan (10 March 1885 – 27 August 1963) was a politician in the State of South Australia.

History

Duncan was born in Watervale, South Australia, the second son of John Duncan, a wealthy and influential pastoralist and politician, and his wife Jean, née Grant. He was educated at St Peter's College, where he did not shine academically, but excelled at cricket.[1] He was made Knight Bachelor in 1939.

Politics

He was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council for the Liberal Party by the Midland electorate in March 1918 and was re-elected in 1924, 1930, 1938, 1944, 1950 and 1956, finally retiring in 1962. He was elected President of the Council in 1944 and held the position until 1962.[2]

Other interests

He was a longtime member of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, and its president in 1924 and 1925.

Family

He married Bessie Graham Fotheringham on 20 October 1922; they lived at 56 Park Terrace (now Greenhill Road), Parkside.

References

  1. ↑ Jenny Tilby Stock, 'Duncan, Sir Walter Gordon (1885–1963)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/duncan-sir-walter-gordon-10066/text17757, published in hardcopy 1996, accessed online 13 October 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/AboutParliament/From1836/Documents/StatisticalRecordoftheLegislature1836to20093.pdf Parliament of South Australia - Statistical Records