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Percy Brereton Colquhoun (28 September 1866 – 23 October 1936) was an Australian parliamentarian, lawyer and sportsman.


Early life

Colquhoun was born at
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, the third son of the
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Crown Solicitor, George Colquhoun. He was privately tutored at home and then attended St Paul's School, Redfern. Colquhoun entered
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in 1881 and in 1885 was captain of the
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and
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teams. After leaving Newington he was articled to his father at Allen & Allen and was admitted as a solicitor in 1891. In that year he entered into partnership as Lee & Colquhoun of
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extending the firm to Blayney in 1893. Colquhoun moved to Sydney in 1896 and opened a new head office.


Sporting career

Colquhoun was chosen in 1886 for the
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tour of
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. He was the top points-scorer on tour and by 1887 he was rated as the outstanding three-quarter in Australia. His New South Wales representative career in intercolonial matches continued until 1896. Colquhoun was a first grade
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and played fifty-five games for New South Wales versus Victoria from 1889 until 1899. He last played in an inter-colonial match in 1909 and twice was the New South Wales men's doubles champion. In the mixed doubles of 1895 and 1896, Colquhoun played with Mabel Ann Shaw and he married her in 1897. In
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Colquhoun represented New South Wales against all the Australian States and New Zealand for over two decades. He defeated
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32–22 to win the State singles title in 1916. In 1909 Colquhoun was president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia, and refereed Sydney's first
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challenge round final. In 1911 and 1912 he was president of the New South Wales Lawn Tennis Association and he served as the first president of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia in 1926.


Parliamentary career

From 1913 until 1920 Colquhoun represented
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in the
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as a Liberal-Nationalist. He was chairman of committees for his last five and a half months in parliament and was a strong debater and an authority on issues of constitutional law.


Later life

From 1912, Colquhoun was in legal partnership with George King and he retired in 1934. He served as a trustee of
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and in 1918 and 1919 he was the president of the Old Newingtonians' Union.Newington Across the Years, A History of Newington College 1863 - 1998 (Syd, 1999) pp 347 Colquhoun died at home in Mosman and was survived by a son and a daughter.


References

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