Ivor MacGillivray, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ivor MacGillivray

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 24-May-1840

Place of Birth: Lossiemouth, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1939

Profession: sailor, politician, farmer, prospector

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ivor MacGillivray

  • Ivor MacGillivray (24 May 1840 – 16 January 1939) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Port Adelaide from 1893 to 1918.
  • He was a member of the United Labor Party until the 1917 Labor split, when he joined the splinter National Party.MacGillivray was born at Lossiemouth in Scotland.
  • He worked on a farm as a boy, and later worked as a seaman between China and Australia, in the Black Sea and Mediterranean.
  • At 19, he left the ship in Melbourne, spent two years at the Bendigo gold rushes, before leaving for the gold rushes in Otago, New Zealand, where he spent a further twelve years.
  • He returned to Melbourne, briefly went to England, and worked as a prospector in Western Australia and South Australia before settling in Adelaide.
  • He worked as a coal lumper at Port Adelaide for 20 years, and was chairman of the Working Men's Association for 16 years.
  • He was one of the local leaders of the 1890 Australian maritime dispute.MacGillivray was elected to the House of Assembly at the 1893 state election.
  • He was expelled from the Labor Party in the 1917 Labor split over his support for conscription in World War I; his only son had been killed in the Gallipoli Campaign.
  • MacGillivray recontested Port Adelaide for the splinter National Party, but was defeated by John Stanley Verran.He retired following the loss of his parliamentary seat in 1918.
  • MacGillivray died at the Adelaide Hospital in 1939, aged 98, following a fall in his home.
  • He was buried at Cheltenham Cemetery.

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