Frank Bathurst Edwards (6 September 1887 – 5 March 1983) was an Australian politician.

Life and career

Born in

Bathurst, New South Wales Bathurst () is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. Bathurst is about 200 kilometres (120 mi) west-northwest of Sydney and is the seat of the Bathurst Regional Council. Bathurst is the oldest inland settlement in ...

, he was educated at

Hutchins School , motto_translation = Character lives after death , city = Hobart , state = Tasmania , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent, day & boarding , ...

and read Law at the

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. From 1909 to 1912 he was a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. Edwards 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, ...

as the

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member for Russell in 1921. He served until he was defeated in 1933; the following year he contested the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

as a

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candidate for Darwin and was elected. He remained in parliament until his resignation in 1940.

References

1887 births 1983 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council People from Bathurst, New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians Alumni of Merton College, Oxford People educated at The Hutchins School {{Australia-Nationalist-politician-stub