Alan Lindsay Wardlaw (23 July 1887 – 24 December 1938) was an Australian politician. He was born in Avoca,

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. When 24 years of age he took over management of Mineral Banks, a farm near

Ringarooma Ringarooma is a small town in north-eastern Tasmania. It is located just east of the Ringarooma River and is about south-west from Derby and east-northeast from Launceston. The area around Ringarooma is known for Dairy farming and timber harve ...

,R.A. Ferrall, "Wardlaw, Allan Lindsay (1887–1938)," Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed 26 September 201

/ref> In 1920 he was elected to the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...

as the

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member for South Esk. He was Chair of Committees from 1920 to 1928. He held the seat until his death in 1938.

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