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Edward Macartney

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After Macartney resigned from Parliament in 1920 due to health issues, he returned to his legal practice. He also became chairman of directors of Swift Australian Co. Pty Ltd and the local board of the National Bank of Australasia Ltd. He was also a director of Finney Isles & Co. Ltd, Queensland
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and Macartney bitterly disliked one another. Macartney accused Ryan of having personally profited from legal cases while he was attorney-general. Such was the ALP's overt disdain for Macartney that in 1916, the Government introduced a constitutional bill designed to disqualify solicitors who acted
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Macartney was Secretary for Public Lands from 7 February 1911 until 11 December 1912 and served as Leader of the Opposition twice: in 1915 and again from 1918 to 1920. Although a speaker of no more than average ability, and regarded as being overly sensitive to criticism, he chaired several
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From 1915 until his retirement from parliament, Macartney was at loggerheads with the ALP Government, which condemned him as a representative of monopolies and the money power. Premier
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Macartney married Caroline Tottenham Lucas Cardew, the daughter of a police magistrate, in July 1888 and together had two sons. A keen golfer, he was president of the
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from 1899 until 1903 including being its president in 1900. In that same year, as the Ministerialist candidate, he stood for the state seat of
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for solicitors Thynne & Goertz, being admitted as a solicitor in 1891. When Thynne & Goertz was dissolved in 1893, he became
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Newspapers Pty Ltd and British Traders' Insurance Co. Ltd. He was appointed Agent-General for Queensland in London by the
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business partner and together developed a strong practice, specializing in commercial matters.
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committees and exerted considerable parliamentary power from 1902 onwards. He argued for
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on 20 March 1883. On his arrival, Macartney is said to have spent a short time as a
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was held, and Macartney, a Kidstonian candidate, won the two-member seat of
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National Party (Queensland, 1917) members of the Parliament of Queensland
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Macartney's first experience in politics was as a wardsman in the
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candidate, Arthur Lilley, son of the former Queensland Premier,
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in 1930, Macartney died in Brisbane in February 1956 and was
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Ministerialist, Opposition Party, Queensland Liberal
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Leader of the Opposition of Queensland
T. J. Ryan
James Tolmie
James Tolmie
William Vowles
Queensland Legislative Assembly
Toowong
Thomas Finney
Richard Cottell
Richard Cottell
James Maxwell
Queensland Legislative Assembly
Brisbane North
Edward Forrest
Edward Barton
Thomas Welsby
Holywood
County Down
Brisbane
Queensland
Irish Australian
National
Business manager
Solicitor
solicitor
Queensland Legislative Assembly
Holywood
County Down
Ceylon

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