Alfred Reginald Fremlin (1832 – 14 July 1915) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in

Wateringbury Wateringbury is a village and civil parish near the town of Maidstone in Kent, England. The Wateringbury Stream flows into the River Medway just above Bow Bridge. It formerly powered three watermills in the village, one of which survives. The Wa ...

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to William Fremlin and Elizabeth Morton. A fellmonger, he married Elizabeth Mennons around 1852; they had twelve children. He migrated to

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around 1855 and settled in

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, working as a fellmonger; he would later become a Baptist minister. In 1880 he was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

for Redfern. Re-elected in 1882, he did not contest in 1885, although he ran again unsuccessfully in 1887, 1889 and 1891. Fremlin died at Enfield in 1915.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fremlin, Alfred 1832 births 1915 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly People from Wateringbury Colony of New South Wales politicians English emigrants to colonial Australia