Robert Waugh Cruickshank (10 December 1868 – 6 November 1928) was an Australian politician. Born in Edinburgh to tailor Robert John Cruickshank and Isabella Drysdale,''Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950'' he was educated at Moray House and Heriot-Watt College before becoming a librarian, later worked for a publishing company. He moved to Brisbane in the early 1890s, worked as a journalist for first Sir Charles Lilley's ''Chronicle'', then ''Drakes Progress'' and finally the ''Sun'' and the ''Australian Worker''. He became a Reuters representative in Brisbane and Sydney, and from around 1911 was an advertising representative for the ''Australian Worker'' and the ''

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''. He was a member of the Labor Party and contributed actively to the successful campaign against

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in 1916. Cruickshank was appointed to the

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in 1921 and served briefly as an honorary minister and Assistant Treasurer from May to October 1927. In 1927 Cruickshank, a strong supporter of Jack Lang, directed the Labor campaign.

Family

On 11 March 1920, he married Maude Mary Leonard at North Sydney, with whom he had three children.

Death

He died at Camperdown in 1928.

References

1868 births 1928 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia Politicians from Edinburgh Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales {{Australia-Labor-NewSouthWales-MP-stub