Robert Cruickshank (Australian politician)

Robert Cruickshank
Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council
In office
1921 (1921)  1928 (1928)
Parliamentary group Australian Labor Party
Personal details
Born Robert Waugh Cruickshank
(1868 -12-10)10 December 1868
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died 6 November 1928(1928-11-06) (aged 59)
Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Political party Australian Labor Party
Other political
affiliations
Lang Labor
Occupation Journalist
Profession Librarian

Robert Waugh Cruickshank (10 December 1868 6 November 1928) was an Australian politician. Born in Edinburgh to tailor Robert John Cruickshank and Isabella Drysdale,[1] he was educated Moray House and Heriot-Watt College before becoming a librarian, later working for a publishing company. He moved to Brisbane in the early 1890s, becoming a journalist for first Sir Charles Lilley's Chronicle, then Drakes Progress and finally the Sun and the Australian Worker.

He became a Reuters representative in Brisbane and Sydney, and from around 1911 was an advertising representative for the Australian Worker and the Labor Daily. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party and contributed actively to the successful campaign against conscription in 1916. Cruickshank was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1921 and served briefly as an honorary minister and Assistant Treasurer from May to October 1927. In 1927 Cruickshank, a strong supporter of Jack Lang, directed the Labor campaign.

Family

On 11 March 1920, he married Maude Mary Leonard at North Sydney, with whom he had three children.

Death

He died at Camperdown in 1928.[2]

References

  1. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
  2. "Mr Robert Waugh Cruickshank (1873-1928)". Parliament of New South Wales. 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2017.


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