Cecil Aubrey Coghlan (1878 – 26 August 1924) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Redfern to builder Thomas Coghlan and Dora Jordan. He attended
Sydney Grammar School
(Praise be to God)
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, type = Independent, day school
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, headmaster = R. B. Malpass
, founder = Laurence Hynes Halloran
, chairman = ...
and was then a solicitor's clerk, working for
John McLaughlin. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1900 and eventually ran a substantial industrial practice. He married Ellen Grant around 1903; they had three children. In 1921 he was appointed to the
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...
as a
Labor member, serving until his death at
Darling Point in 1924. He was the brother of
Sir Timothy Coghlan, government statistician and
Agent-General,
and
Iza Coghlan
Iza Frances Josephine Coghlan MBBS ChM (10 October 1868 – 1 July 1946) was an Australian medical doctor. With Grace Boelke, she was one of the first two female graduates in medicine from the University of Sydney.
Biography
Coghlan was born in ...
, a medical doctor.
References
1878 births
1924 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
People educated at Sydney Grammar School
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