John McNeill (1872 – 4 June 1916) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. His parents were commercial traveller John McNeill and Anne McKenzie. He arrived in

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in 1888 and became a patternmaker, working for the Railways Department. In 1893 he married Mary O'Brien; they would have five children. He later worked as a publican. In 1902 he was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

as the

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member for Sydney-Pyrmont, transferring to Pyrmont in 1904. He served until his retirement in 1913, and died in 1916 at

Hurstville Hurstville is a suburb in Southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD and is part of the St George area. Hurstville is the administrative centre of the local government area of the Georges Riv ...

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1872 births 1916 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales British emigrants to Australia {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub