Ted Kinsella, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ted Kinsella

Australian politician

Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1893

Date of Death: 20-Dec-1967

Profession: politician

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ted Kinsella

  • Edward Parnell "Ted" Kinsella CBE (10 June 1893 – 20 December 1967) was an Australian politician and judge. He was born in Glen Innes to Patrick Kinsella and Mary Jane, née Sharman.
  • He attended St Patrick's College in Goulburn and was employed as a cadet draftsman with the Lands Department in Wagga Wagga, Moree and Sydney from 1910 to 1914.
  • During World War I he served in the 2nd, 54th and 56th Battalions, seeing action at Gallipoli and Flanders and rising to the rank of lieutenant.
  • On 2 August 1919 he married Marie Louise Graff, with whom he had five children.
  • After the war Kinsella returned to the Lands Department and studied law part-time at the University of Sydney, graduating with his Bachelor of Law in 1927, in which year he was called to the Bar.
  • In 1930 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Georges River, but he was defeated in 1932.
  • He was appointed a District Court judge in 1943 and in that year was also appointed to the Industrial Commission of NSW.
  • He served as a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1950 to 1963.
  • Kinsella was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1964.
  • He died in Sydney in 1967.

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