Arthur Pinkerton Crawford (22 September 1923 – 19 June 1995) was a member of the

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Biography

Crawford was born in

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, the son of Andrew Pinkerton Crawford and his wife Lilian Mary (née Donnelly). He was educated at

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State School before attending the Brisbane Church of England Grammar School. At the age of ten he was confined to bed as a result of

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.Crawford, Arthur Pinkerton (1923 - 1995)
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. Retrieved 25 April 2016. He was a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science at the

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and then was a Post Graduate at the Australian College of Surgeons. On graduation he became a surgical specialist and general practitioner. He was a surgeon to Australian Forces in Vietnam, in 1967-1968 and a lecturer at the Medical School of the University of Queensland. Crawford was also a director of Sanders Chemicals Ltd. On 6 December 1947, he married Marion Chalk and together had one son and two daughters. Crawford died in June 1995 and was

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at the

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.Arthur Pinkington Crawford ( - 1995)
— Heaven Address. Retrieved 25 April 2016.

Public life

At the

1969 Queensland state election Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 17 May 1969 to elect the 78 members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The Country-Liberal Coalition won its fifth consecutive victory since it won government in 1957. It wa ...

s, Crawford won the seat of Wavell, and held it until his retirement from politics in

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. He was a member of Council of Presbyterian and Methodist Schools Association from 1966 and the Autistic Children's Association from 1970. Crawford was also President of the Right to Life Association (Queensland) from 1971 to 1977 and a councilor for the Family Planning Association.

References

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