Duncan MacDonald (30 June 1885 – 28 September 1977) was a member of the
Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Biography
MacDonald was born at
Girvan,
Ayrshire
Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...
, Scotland, the son of Thomas Duncan MacDonald Snr and his wife Christina (née McLean). He was educated at the
Glasgow Academy University of Edinburgh and after arriving in
Queensland in 1908 took up a variety of
bush related jobs. He became the manager of a sugar plantation and then an inspector with the Bureau of Sugar Experiment stations.
[
In his youth, Macdonald was a noted boxer and played first-class rugby union. He was a member of the Queensland Club and a councilor and steward on the Royal National Association.
On 4 June 1913 MacDonald married Mary Irene Enid Ward][ (died 1961)][Family history research]
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 21 April 2016. and together had one son and two daughters. The son, Peter Macdonald (9 January 1916 – 11 March 1943) was an RAAF Pilot Officer, lost presumed killed in WWII.Robert Silvers Black
Robert Silvers Black (1860 – 30 March 1934) was mine manager of Kalgurli Mines .
History
Black was a son of William Black, of Milburn, New Zealand, Milburn, in Otago, New Zealand, and born in nearby Milton, New Zealand, Milton.
He was educated a ...
.
He died at Maleny in September 1977.[
]
Public life
MacDonald, representing the Country Party, won the seat of Stanley at the 1938 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 2 April 1938 to elect the 62 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government of Premier William Forgan Smith was seeking a third term in office. During the previous ...
. He held the seat until 1950 when the seat was abolished, then moved to the new seat of Somerset which he held until 1953.[
He was a long-term member of the Shire of Landsborough council, being a councilor from 1927–1936, 1955–1958, and 1961–1964. He was also the chairman of the shire in 1955–1958.
]
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Duncan
Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1885 births
1977 deaths
National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland
20th-century Australian politicians
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh