David Wheatcroft Cory (3 August 1928 – 14 February 2022) was an Australian politician who was a member of the

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Biography

David Wheatcroft Cory was born in

Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...

, Queensland, the son of Fitzroy Cory and his wife Margaret (née Wheatcroft). He was educated at Warwick Central and Intermediate State Schools before attending the

Brisbane Grammar School Brisbane Grammar School (BGS) is an Independent school, independent, fee charging, non-denominational, day school, day and boarding school for boys, located in Spring Hill, Queensland, Spring Hill, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Austra ...

. He became a farmer, working in Swanfels and Warwick. On 30 June 1967, Cory married Ms. Barnes and together had one son. Cory died in

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on 14 February 2022, at the age of 93.

Public life

Following the death of Otto Madsen in 1963, Cory won the resulting

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben ...

for the Country Party. He held the seat until the

1977 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 12 November 1977 to elect the 82 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election resulted in a fourth consecutive victory for the National- Liberal Coalition under Joh Bjel ...

s when he retired from politics. Although never a minister during his time in parliament, he held the following roles: * Member of the Parliamentary Refreshment Room Committee – 1967–1977 * Member of the Government Party Committees on Justice, Primary Industries, Transport, and Lands and Forestry – 1969–1972 * Queensland Delegate to the General Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Canberra – 1970 * Queensland Delegate to the General Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Kuala Lumpur – 1971 * Member of the Government Party Committees on Development and Industrial Affairs, Primary Industries, and Transport – 1972–1974 * Delegate to the Australian Constitutional Convention – 1972 and 1973 * Member of the Queensland Parliamentary Delegation to Japan and South-East Asia – 1973 * Member of the Queensland Trade Delegation to the Middle East – 1975 Cory was also Chairman of the Warwick Branch of the Graziers Association of South-East Queensland from 1961 to 1965. Cory was made a

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(AM) in the

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for "service to the environment, particularly in the areas of rural lands protection in Queensland, and through animal, weed and pest management".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cory, David Wheatcroft 1928 births 2022 deaths Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland Members of the Order of Australia People educated at Brisbane Grammar School