Herbert Keck (28 January 1859 – 8 June 1937) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sandhurst to grocer William Keck and Eliza Collcutt. He worked as a mason before purchasing land at

Kennington Kennington is a district in south London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between the ...

, becoming a nurseryman and orchardist. He also owned land at Barham, Cohuna and Elmore. On 16 May 1882 he married Ann Pattinson, with whom he had eight children; he had two later marriages, one, on 29 June 1906, to Ada Pattinson, and one, on 2 December 1933, to Margaret June Ireland. He served on Strathfieldsaye Shire Council from 1898 to 1937 and was president five times (1903–04, 1912–13, 1918–19, 1927–28, 1936–37). In 1921 he won a by-election for

Bendigo Province Bendigo Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council . It was created in the redistribution of provinces in June 1904, North Central Province being abolished. Bendigo Province itself was abolished in 1988. Members These w ...

in the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Nationalist Party. He served in the Council until his death in

Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, makin ...

in 1937.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Keck, Herbert 1859 births 1937 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria United Australia Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Colony of Victoria people