Hubert Lawrence "Larry" Anthony (12 March 189712 July 1957) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Country Party and held ministerial office in the governments of

Arthur Fadden Sir Arthur William Fadden, (13 April 189421 April 1973) was an Australian politician who served as the 13th prime minister of Australia from 29 August to 7 October 1941. He was the leader of the Country Party from 1940 to 1958 and also served ...

and Robert Menzies, serving as

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(1941),

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(1949–1956), and Minister for Civil Aviation (1951–1954). A soldier and banana-grower before entering politics, he represented the New South Wales seat of

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from 1937 to 1957, which was later held by his son

Doug Anthony John Douglas Anthony, (31 December 192920 December 2020) was an Australian politician. He served as leader of the National Party of Australia from 1971 to 1984 and was the second and longest-serving Deputy Prime Minister, holding the position ...

and grandson

Larry Anthony Lawrence James Anthony (born 17 December 1961) is an Australian former politician. He was a National Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives representing the Division of Richmond, New South Wales, from the March 1 ...

, the only three-generation dynasty in the history of the

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Early life

Anthony was born in

Warren, New South Wales Warren is a town in the Orana Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located off the Mitchell Highway, 120 kilometres north west of Dubbo, and is the seat of the Warren Shire local government area. At the , Warren had a population of 1, ...

, and had a limited education in bush schools. In 1914 he joined the

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and spent World War I in the Signals Corps, seeing active duty in Gallipoli. He was discharged in 1916 following his return to Australia, where he was initially admitted to the first Auxiliary Hospital suffering from throat disease. After the war he settled at

Murwillumbah Murwillumbah ( ) is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-e ...

on the NSW north coast, where he took up banana farming. By the 1930s he was the biggest banana-grower in Australia and chairman of the Banana Growers Federation. This made him an influential figure in the politics of the Northern Rivers region.

Politics

In 1937 Anthony was elected to the House of Representatives as Country Party member for the seat of

. As a powerful figure in the party he had rapid promotion. He was an Honorary Minister 1940–1941, and

in 1941. During the years of the wartime

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government (1941–1949), he was a senior member of the Opposition. In 1949 the conservatives returned to power under Robert Menzies, and Anthony became

, adding the post of Minister for Civil Aviation in 1951. He held these posts until his sudden death at Murwillumbah in 1957. He was succeeded as Member for Richmond by his son

, then aged 27. Doug Anthony was later leader of the Country Party and

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1971–1972 and 1975–1983. Doug's son

was Member for Richmond 1996–2004 and was a junior minister in the Howard government. The Anthonys are the only three-generation dynasty in the House of Representatives, although

Alexander Downer Alexander John Gosse Downer (born 9 September 1951) is an Australian former politician and diplomat who was leader of the Liberal Party from 1994 to 1995, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1996 to 2007, and High Commissioner to the United King ...

is the son of a federal MP and the grandson of a Senator.

References

External links

National Archives of Australia: (Army – World War I: 1914–18) – Military service extract: Anthony, Hubert Lawrence

Early life

Politics

See also

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