Percy Christopher Trevor Harvey (30 May 1885 – 9 December 1952) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to sailor and station master Percy Leigh Harvey and Edith Julia Graves. He was a manager of butter factories at

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and

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, and around 1908 married Ellen James Evans, with whom he had seven children. From around 1911 he was a dairy farmer and grazier at Boisdale, and he was closely involved with the agricultural and farming community. In 1943 he was elected to the

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for

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as an unendorsed Country Party member; he was admitted to the party on joining parliament. From 1950 to 1952 he was Minister of Labour. He died in 1952 at Parkville.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Harvey, Trevor 1885 births 1952 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians