Donald Neville Saltmarsh (6 April 1934 – 3 November 2006) was an Australian politician. He was born at

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to schoolteacher Maxwell Ronald Saltmarsh and Winifred Jeanie Shore. He was educated at

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, and received a Diploma of Agriculture from Longerong Agricultural College in 1954 before studying at

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, where he received a

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in 1959. From 1959 he was a Methodist minister, first at Williamstown, then at

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(1960–64), Fitzroy (1965–69) and the Wesley Central Mission in

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(1970–71). On 14 March 1959 he married Ariel Alder Keen, with whom he had four children. He had joined the Labor Party in 1967, but in 1971 moved to the

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. In 1976 he was elected to the

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for Waverley. He resigned from the Council in 1982 to successfully contest the Legislative Assembly seat of

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, but he was defeated in 1985. Saltmarsh died in 2006.

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1934 births 2006 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Members of the Victorian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Liberal-politician-stub