Harold Read "Harry" Hedditch (13 March 1893 – 23 May 1974) was an Australian politician. He was born in Bridgewater to farmer William Forward Hedditch and Marian Nunn Jones. He became a bookkeeper and typist, and also ran the family farm at

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from 1918. He became a real estate agent and also ran a garage. On 28 August 1921 he married Amy Elizabeth Gillies, with whom he had two children; he would later marry a second time, to Bernice Hope Boddington. He served on Portland Borough Council from 1933 to 1943 and was mayor from 1941 to 1943. In 1943 he was elected to the

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for Port Fairy and Glenelg; a Country Party member, he was an unendorsed candidate but joined the parliamentary party. His seat was abolished in 1945 and he was defeated running for

. He was elected for Portland in 1947, and in 1949 resigned from the Country Party to join the

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. He was defeated a second time in 1950. Hedditch died at Geelong East in 1974.

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