Henry Bull Templar Strangways (14 November 1832 – 10 February 1920) was an Australian politician and

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. Strangways was the eldest son of Henry Bull Strangways of

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. As a boy, he visited

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, where his uncle

Thomas Bewes Strangways Thomas Bewes Strangways (23 July 1809 – 23 February 1859), generally called "Bewes Strangways" and "T. Bewes Strangways", was an explorer, early settler and Colonial Secretary of South Australia. Strangways was the second son of late Henry Bull ...

was a pioneer. Returning to England he entered the

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in November 1851 and was called to the bar in June 1856. He went to

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early in the following year, was elected to the

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for

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in January 1858, and became

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in the

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from May 1860 to May 1861. The ministry was then reconstructed and Strangways became Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration until October 1861. He held the same position in the Waterhouse ministry from October 1861 to July 1863, in the Dutton ministry from March to September 1865, and in the third

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ministry from September to October 1865. Strangways represented West Torrens from 17 November 1862 to 28 July 1871. On 3 November 1868 he became Premier and Attorney-General in a ministry that was reconstructed after an election on 12 May 1870, but was defeated 18 days later. In February 1871 he travelled to England on private business; while there he resigned his seat in the South Australian Parliament and settled instead at

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on the Strangways family's estate in

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, where he lived the life of a country gentleman until his death on 10 February 1920. He retained an interest in South Australia all his life, but does not appear to have revisited it. In January 1861 he married Maria Cordelia Wigley, a sister of

William Rodolph Wigley William Rodolph Wigley (c. 1826 – 6 May 1890) was a lawyer and politician in the British colony of South Australia. W. R. Wigley was born in England to Henry Rodolph Wigley, who emigrated to South Australia with some of his family on the ''Sc ...

(c. 1826–1890), and was survived by a daughter.

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