About Lindsay Riches
Lived 1904 – 1972 (aged 68). Lindsay Riches was an Australian politician, political adviser, newspaper editor and composer.
Lindsay Gordon Riches, CMG (18 February 1904 – 7 June 1972) was a South Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1933 to 1970, representing the electorates of Newcastle (1933-1938) and Stuart (1938-1970). He was Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1965 to 1968 under Frank Walsh and Don Dunstan.
He was born at Mundalla, near Tatiara, and was educated at Bordertown Public School. He worked as a compositor for the Border Chronicle newspaper at Bordertown for seven years after leaving school, working for former state Labor MP Donald Campbell. He moved to Port Augusta to work for the Transcontinental in 1924, and took over the operation of that newspaper in 1927, serving as editor.
Honours He was appointed CMG on 1 January 1967 and C.St.J. on 8 January 1970.
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Australian politician
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Lindsay Riches was born on 18 February 1904 in Mundulla.
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Lindsay Riches died on 7 June 1972.
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Lindsay Riches was a politician, political adviser, newspaper editor and composer.
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Lindsay Riches was Australian.
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