Septimus Denbigh Alldis (5 February 1886 – 22 July 1929) was an Australian politician. He was born at Gong Gong to James Ford Walter Alldis and Sarah, ''née'' Jones. On 22 March 1913 he married Maggie Hamilton Thomson. A schoolteacher, he taught in Orange from 1901 and also studied at the

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, receiving his

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in 1922. He taught at Cleveland Street Intermediate High School from 1919 to 1925 and later taught classics at Burwood High School. In 1925 he was elected to the

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as a

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member for Eastern Suburbs. When single-member districts were reintroduced, he contested Labor preselection for

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and lost; he ran as an Independent Labor candidate and was defeated. He returned to teaching, primarily classics, after his defeat and wrote several

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textbooks. Alldis died in 1929 at

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1886 births 1929 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly University of Sydney alumni Australian educators 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub