Edward Findley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edward Findley

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1864

Place of Birth: Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

Date of Death: 26-Oct-1947

Profession: politician, typesetter

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Edward Findley (8 September 1864 – 26 October 1947) was an Australian politician and publisher. Findley was born in Bendigo, Victoria (then called Sandhurst) and was apprenticed as a compositor on the Bendigo Independent before moving to Melbourne in the early 1880s to work on the Daily Telegraph, which closed in 1892.
He became an active unionist and was elected president of the Australasian Typographical Union in 1897.
He established a weekly newspaper, the Boomerang in 1894, but it ran for only eight issues.
He helped establish the Toscin, a radical union weekly in 1896.