Edward Charles Close (21 January 1825 – 19 February 1887) was an Australian politician. He was born at Morpeth to Sophia Susannah Palmer and Edward Charles Close, who was a British soldier and member of the

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. On 2 January 1837 he laid the foundation stones of St James's Church of England in Morpeth. He was a pastoralist and landowner and on 24 July 1847 married Louisa Slade Platt, with whom he had four children. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Morpeth, but resigned in 1860, later stating that he did so because it had been a lengthy session of parliament, marked by a contest for power between

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, William Forster and

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in which nothing was done. He successfully contested the Morpeth by-election in 1862 before retiring again in 1864. Close died at St Leonards on .

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Close, Edward 1825 births 1887 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians