Eldred James Eggins (7 April 1898 – 28 January 1952) was an Australian politician and a member of the Country Party of Australia. Jim Eggins was born at

Grafton, New South Wales Grafton ( Bundjalung-Yugambeh: Gumbin Gir) is a city in the Northern Rivers region of the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located on the Clarence River, approximately by road north-northeast of the state capital Sydney. The closest m ...

and educated in state schools. He served in the military in 1918 and later grew bananas in the Brunswick River region, and was a seed merchant in Lismore. He also served on Lismore City Council, including as mayor in 1932, 1935 and 1936. Eggins served as the Chairman of the New South Wales Fodder and Conservation Board. He was also Chairman of the New South Wales Country Party from 1945 till 1949. He served in the

New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...

between April 1940 and October 1949. He was elected as the member for the Division of Lyne in the Australian House of Representatives in 1949, and was re-elected in 1951. Eggins died in office on 28 January 1952, a day after being admitted to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, with a "cerebral condition". He had two sons and four daughters, with one son killed in World War II. His death prompted the 1952 Lyne by-election at which

Philip Lucock Philip Ernest Lucock, Order of the British Empire, CBE (16 January 1916 – 8 August 1996) was an Australian politician and Presbyterian Church of Australia, Presbysterian minister. He served in the Australian House of Representatives, House ...

retained the seat for the Country Party.

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