Arthur Rowland Gardiner (14 March 1876 – 11 February 1948) was an Australian politician. Gardiner was born in

Windsor, New South Wales Windsor is a historic town north-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the council seat of the Hawkesbury local government area. The town sits on the Hawkesbury River, enveloped by farmland and Australian bush. Many of the oldest s ...

and educated at Windsor and Sydney Superior public schools and Sydney Teachers' College (now part of the

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). He was a state school teacher from 1893 until 1903 at Sydney-area schools and from 1903 until 1910 in the

Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...

area. He was the ALP member for

in the

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from 1910 to 1916, when he left the party on the conscription issue. He then represented Newcastle as a "Labor Independent" and "independent" member until 1922. He stood as a

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candidate in the state elections of 1927 and 1930. He married Maud Lois Christmas at St Clements in Marrickville on 22 July 1920 and died in the Sydney suburb of

Earlwood Earlwood is a suburb in Southern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Earlwood is located 10 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, and is part of the St George area. It is in the local government areas of ...

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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1876 births 1948 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub