Harry Norman Brookman (22 January 1884 – 26 April 1949) was a farmer and politician in South Australia.

History

Norman was born at

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, the second son of Eliza Martha (née Marshall; 1859–1931) and George Donald Brookman (1840–1927). His father was an MLC in South Australia, while an uncle, William Gordon Brookman, was an MLC in Western Australia and

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. He was a student at Roseworthy College, and during the war of 1914–1918 served in France as a gunner with the 42nd battery, 11th Brigade Field Artillery. He developed a model farm "Burbrook", near

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, and was involved in sheep breeding, apple growing and experimented with commercial flax growing. He was involved with the

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in other field trials on his property. His was vitally interested in pastures, and experimented with various grasses and clovers. He was a councillor and chairman of the

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from 1924 to 1929, and was chairman of the District Council of Meadows from 1933 to 1935. He served on the Hills Firefighting and Prevention Committee. He and

Jack Bice John Leonard Sandoe Bice (1 December 1884 – 16 July 1967) was a politician in the State of South Australia. History He was a son of Sir John George Bice KCMG (1853–1923) and Elizabeth Jane Bice née Trewenack. Sir John was a member of the Le ...

, both sons of ex-MLC knights, were

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candidates for the Southern district seats in the Legislative Council in 1941, and both were successful. Bice retired in 1959, but Norman Brookman was killed in 1949 when the car he was driving home from Victor Harbor crashed head-on into a 4-ton truck around south of Noarlunga.

Family

He married Ada Mary Dorothy "Nan" Burden (24 April 1889 – 1975) on 6 March 1912. She was a daughter of

Frederic Britten Burden Frederic Britten Burden (1852 – 30 January 1897) was a businessman and newspaper editor in the colony of South Australia. History Burden was born in England, the second son of Philip Henry Burden (ca.1823 – 3 March 1864), and emigrated to Sou ...

and Ada Burden, née Hallett (c. 1851 – 26 March 1927), later Mrs. Thomas Duffield of Mount Lofty, and has been named "Dorothy Britten Burden". *Anthony Brookman (1914 – ) * David Norman Brookman (24 Mar 1917 – 22 May 2000) was an M.P. for

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from 1948 to 1973. *Nigel Peter Brookman (1920 – ) *Elizabeth Charmian Brookman (1922 – )

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Brookman, Norman Australian farmers Members of the South Australian Legislative Council Road incident deaths in South Australia 1884 births 1949 deaths Liberal and Country League politicians 20th-century Australian politicians Royal Field Artillery soldiers British Army personnel of World War I