Raymond Stephen Perdriau (3 December 188625 December 1951) was an Australian politician. He was born at Waverley in Sydney to surveyor Stephen Edward Perdriau and Grace Marion, ''née'' King. After attending Scots College and

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he was employed by Dalgety's Ltd and then began farming on the Tweed River. During

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he served in the Australian Imperial Force's 3rd Artillery Division and was wounded and invalided at the

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; he attained the rank of

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. On 5 November 1916 he married Isabella Aitchison in

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, with whom he had a daughter. He was elected to the

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in 1920 as one of the members for

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, a member of the Progressive Party. He served as Minister for Business Undertaking for one day, 20 December 1921. A coalitionist Progressive who had joined the Nationalist Party by 1922, Perdriau was defeated in 1925. On 29 August 1939 he married Myrtle May Webb, with whom he had four more children. He died at

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in 1951.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Perdriau, Stephen 1886 births 1951 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Politicians from Sydney Australian military personnel of World War I 20th-century Australian politicians