Sir Robert Lyndley Sparkes (31 May 19296 August 2006) was President of the

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National Party from 1970 to 1990 and the mayor of the

Shire of Wambo The Shire of Wambo was a local government area in the Darling Downs region of Queensland, Australia. The shire surrounded but did not include the town of Dalby – which had its own municipal government. It covered an area of , and existed as ...

for over 30 years. Sparkes was born in

Dalby, Queensland Dalby () is a rural town and locality in the Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , the locality of Dalby had a population of 12,719 people. It is on the Darling Downs and is the administrative centre for the Western Downs ...

, the son of Sir

Jim Sparkes Sir Walter Beresford James Gordon Sparkes (22 April 1889 – 15 June 1974) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Early life Sparkes was born at Dubbo, New South Wales in 1889 to James Sparkes and his wife Mary Ann (née Yates). ...

. Most of his term was served during the period of the

Bjelke-Petersen Bjelke-Petersen is the name of an Australian family of Danish descent. The common ancestors of the Australian family are Georg Peter Bjelke-Petersen (born c. 1845), a Danish farmer and master-builder, and his wife Caroline Vilhelmine (maiden nam ...

-led National Party state government. He was knighted in the 1979 New Year's Honours for services to local government.It's an Honour
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