Daniel O'Connor

Daniel O'Connor (13 September 1844 – 24 January 1914) was an Irish-born politician and businessman active in colonial-era New South Wales.

Early life and education O'Connor was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, to Patrick and Margaret O'Connor. In 1854 he moved with his family to Sydney, sailing on the Lord Hungerford. The younger O'Connor joined his father working in a butcher's shop after only a brief education. Eventually as a teenager he studied literature at the Sydney School of Arts and later at the City College.

He was married in 1868 to Mary Carroll. They had seven children. As a member of Parliament he was an opponent of Chinese immigration and payment of Members of Parliament. He joined the Free Trade Party with the emergence of political parties at the 1887 election. He was again appointed Postmaster-General in March 1889 in the fifth Parkes ministry, As a bankrupt he had to give up his seat in the Legislative Council. He was reappointed in 1895, serving until his resignation in July 1898 when he attempted to regain a seat in the Legislative Assembly switching to Edmund Barton's National Federal Party. He served the electorate until 1904 when he finally withdrew from public life.

World trip After leaving Parliament O'Connor embarked on a world tour, visiting England and Ireland before heading to the United States. He was in San Francisco during the 1906 earthquake and lost all of his belongings.

Death O'Connor died at the Liverpool, New South Wales, asylum in 1914 (aged 69). He was buried in the Catholic section of the Waverley Cemetery.