Full Name William Yaldwyn Name William Yaldwyn Religion Church of England | Occupation Pastoralist Nationality English Australian Role Politician | |
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Spouse(s) Jane Sinclair (m.1861 d.1883), Violet Norm Jessie Agnew (m.1902) Died July 27, 1919, Sydney, Australia | ||
William Yaldwyn (12 November 1835 – 27 July 1919) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
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Early life
Yaldwyn was born in Blackdown, Sussex, England in 1836 to William Henry Yaldwyn and his wife Henrietta Mary (née Bowles). He was educated at Blackheath Preparatory School and Tonbridge Grammar School, Kent.
Upon his arrival in Queensland he gained Pastoral experience by working on his father's stations.
Politics
On 18 June 1868 he was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council serving for nine years before resigning to become a Police Magistrate in Dalby on 15 May 1877.
Later life
Yaldwyn was promoted to Police Magistrate in Ipswich where he served for eleven years and was promoted as Police Magistrate in South Brisbane where he remained until his retirement in 1906 after 29 years of service as a police magistrate.
Yaldwyn had a keen interest in sport, promoting the first rugby football club in Warwick and representing the Queensland I Zingari cricket team in 1875/76. In 1861 he had married Jane Sinclair and together they had seven children. Jane died in 1883 and in 1902 he married Violet Norm Jessie Agnew, the daughter of Phil Agnew, the Post and Telegraph Master of Dunwich. He retired to England in 1907 but later returned to Brisbane and died in a private hospital in Sydney on 27 July 1919.