About Alfred Hemsley
Lived 1860 – 1937 (aged 76). Alfred Hemsley was a politician.
Alfred Macartney Hemsley (22 July 1860 – 12 July 1937) was an English-born Australian politician.
He was born in Ealing to solicitor Alexander Hemsley and Catherine Blackett. He attended the University of Oxford, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1886. He qualified as a solicitor in 1886 and in 1888 migrated to Sydney. He was a partner in a number of law firms, and from 1927 to 1937 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, first for the Nationalist Party and then for the United Australia Party. He died in Sydney in 1937.
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Australian politician
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Alfred Hemsley was born on 22 July 1860.
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Alfred Hemsley died on 12 July 1937.
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