Lee Batchelor

Edgerton Lee Batchelor ( born April 10, 1865 in Adelaide, South Australia; † October 8, 1911 in Warburton, Victoria) was an Australian politician and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Interior, both of the country.

Early life

Batchelor was born in Adelaide and brought up after the death of his father, who worked as a photographer along with his two brothers together by his mother alone. He went to the North Adelaide Model School and was at the age of twelve years already Pupil Teacher. He worked at the North Adelaide Church of Christ Secondary School, but at 17 he was a talented mechanical engineer.

As trade unionists

Batchelor was soon active in the Labour Movement and joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (Adelaide ) one in 1882, whose president he was four times from 1889 to 1898. He was also president of the Railway Service Mutual Association. He was elected in 1892 to the Treasurer of the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia and 1893 was its secretary. In 1890 he married Rosina Mooney. he married Rosina Mooney. He was a founding member in 1891 of the United Labor Party (ULP ). He was party secretary from 1892 to 1896 and was its president in 1898.

Political career

Batchelor was the election of the South Australian House of Assembly nominated by the ULP in 1893. He was the first Labour member who received a parliamentary seat in South Australia. Batchelor led the ULP in the Parliament of South Australia by 1897 until 1899.

From 1899 to 1901 Batchelor was minister for education and agriculture in the second term of Frederick Holder. In 1901 he resigned from the South Australian Parliament and became the choice of the Australian Parliament. Along with Holder, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as one of seven members of South Australia. He was the only member of the Labor Party in South Australia. Batchelor gave up his seat in the elections in 1903 voluntarily to one of his deputies from and entered for election to a seat for the Division of Boothby. This selfless behavior rewarded the selectors with his choice.

In the reign of Chris Watson Batchelor was Home Secretary. From 1908 to 1909 and from 1910 to 1911, was Batchelor Foreign Minister of Australia under the government of Andrew Fisher. Batchelor visited with Fisher together 1911 Imperial Conference, when it came to foreign policy matters within the Commonwealth.

As the Northern Territory was made in January 1911 under the supervision of the Commonwealth, Batchelor was tasked to take over the administration of the region as the first minister. During this time he worked on the creation of reserves for Aboriginal people living there.

Batchelor died suddenly of a heart attack while climbing Mount Donna Buang near Warburton in Victoria. Shortly after his death, he was named after him Batchelor (1912 ) in honor of the Minister of the Northern Territory, a town situated therein. The city is located 98 km south of Darwin.

Swell

Dean Jaensch: Lee Batchelor. In: Douglas Pike ( ed.) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria 1966 ff (English)
"So Monstrous A Travesty " - Ross McMullin (p. 15)

Minister of Foreign Affairs (Australia)
Born 1865
Died in 1911
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