Alexander Elliot Davidson Lillico (5 September 1905 – 1 November 1994) was an Australian politician. He was an independent member of the
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ...
for the seat of
Meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ban ...
from 1943 to 1958 and a
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is a centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party. It was founded in 1944 as the successor to the United Aus ...
member of the
Australian Senate from 1958 to 1974.
Early life
Lillico was born in
Penguin
Penguins ( order Sphenisciformes , family Spheniscidae ) are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is found north of the Equator. Highly adapt ...
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Tasmania
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, the son of state MP
Alexander Lillico, and educated at Don State School and Devonport High School, with two terms boarding at
Scotch College, Melbourne
Scotch College is an independent school, independent Presbyterian Day school, day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, Victoria, Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Aus ...
. He began farming after leaving school and acquired property at
Wilmot. He was a member of the
Kentish Council
Kentish Council is a local government body in Tasmania, situated in the north-west of the state, to the south and inland from Devonport. Kentish is classified as a rural local government area and has a population of 6,324, the major towns of ...
from 1934 until 1960 and became its youngest ever warden in 1936 at the age of 30.
Politics
In 1943 he was elected to the
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ...
for
Meander
A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ban ...
. In 1958, he left the Assembly to successfully contest the
Australian Senate as a
Liberal candidate for Tasmania. He retired in 1974. Lillico died in 1994.
Personal life
Lillico married Gladys Mayo in 1928, with whom he had three children. He was widowed in 1987 and died in
Deloraine, Tasmania
Deloraine is a town on the Meander River, in the central north of Tasmania, Australia. It is 50 km west of Launceston and 52 km south of Devonport along the Bass Highway. It is part of the Meander Valley Council. Deloraine recorde ...
, on 1 November 1994.
[ His great-nephew Mark Baker was elected to the House of Representatives in 2004.]
References
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia
Members of the Australian Senate for Tasmania
Members of the Australian Senate
Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
1905 births
1994 deaths
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania
20th-century Australian politicians
People from Penguin, Tasmania
20th-century Australian farmers
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