Henry Edward Kater (20 September 1841 – 23 September 1924) was an Australian politician. He was born at Bungarabee near Penrith to pastoralist Henry Herman Kater, later a miller and cloth manufacturer, and Eliza Charlotte Darvall. He worked as a junior clerk in Mudgee before acquiring land on the Castlereagh River in 1863, which he then sold. He worked at

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as a flour miller. In 1870 married Mary Eliza Forster, daughter of

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William Forster, with whom he had one son,

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. In 1879 he settled in

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, where he became a businessman and pastoralist. In 1888 he was elected to the Council of the Municipal District of Moss Vale. He was nominated to the

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in 1889 by Premier George Dibbs, but he did not profess loyalty to either the Protectionist or

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parties and was regarded as an

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. Kater remained in the Council until his death in 1924. His son Norman also served on the Legislative Council.

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1841 births 1924 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council {{Australia-politician-stub