Initiated: Australian Lodge of Harmony No. 556 English Constitution
in Sydney on 13 March 1878. Became Senior Deacon of the Lodge on 9 June
1880
Federationist, Prime Minister and judge was born in Sydney the son
of an accountant/stockbroker. He was educated at Fort Street High
School. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar. He successfully stood for
the University of Sydney seat in the NSW Legislative Assembly in 1879.
For more than ten years he campaigned for federation. At the 1897 Convention poll he was elected first of the ten NSW delegates. After the first election the Governor General asked Sir William Lyne to form a government – he was unsuccessful and so Barton was then asked – and he was successful and became Australia's first Prime Minister.
PM Barton In 1903 he resigned from Parliament and was appointed to the High Court where he gained a reputation as a good and impartial judge.
Barton died on 7 January 1920 from heart failure at the Hydro Majestic Hotel, Medlow Bath, New South Wales. He was interred in South Head General Cemetery in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse (see Waverley Cemetery). He was survived by his wife and six children:
For more than ten years he campaigned for federation. At the 1897 Convention poll he was elected first of the ten NSW delegates. After the first election the Governor General asked Sir William Lyne to form a government – he was unsuccessful and so Barton was then asked – and he was successful and became Australia's first Prime Minister.
PM Barton In 1903 he resigned from Parliament and was appointed to the High Court where he gained a reputation as a good and impartial judge.
Barton died on 7 January 1920 from heart failure at the Hydro Majestic Hotel, Medlow Bath, New South Wales. He was interred in South Head General Cemetery in the Sydney suburb of Vaucluse (see Waverley Cemetery). He was survived by his wife and six children:
- Edmund Alfred (29 May 1879 – 13 November 1949), a New South Wales judge
- Wilfrid Alexander (1880–1953), first NSW Rhodes Scholar (1904)
- Jean Alice (1882–1957), married Sir David Maughan (1873–1955) in 1909
- Arnold Hubert (3 January 1884 – 1948), married Jane Hungerford in Sydney 1907; he later emigrated to Canada
- Oswald (8 January 1888 – 6 February 1956), medical doctor
- Leila Stephanie (1892–1976), married Robert Christopher Churchill Scot-Skirving in London 1915
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