Herbert Edward Graham Downward (25 April 1880 – 5 July 1973) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Emerald Hill to
Alfred Downward
Alfred Downward (c. 1847 – 26 June 1930) was an Australian politician.
Born in Melbourne to Edward and Elizabeth Downward, he was educated at Prahran and Mornington before working on his father's Balnarring sheep farm. From 1874, he had ...
and Josephine Kerr. He was educated in
Mornington, and managed the family property there before he inherited it. On 31 May 1916 he married Eileen May Edwards, with whom he had three sons. He served on
Flinders Shire Council from 1917 to 1920 and
Mornington Shire Council from 1919 to 1931, serving as president of the latter from 1922 to 1923 and from 1929 to 1930. In 1929 he was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ...
as the
Country Party member for
Mornington, succeeding his father. He served until his defeat in 1932. Downward died in
Frankston in 1973.
References
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1880 births
1973 deaths
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
20th-century Australian politicians