Date of Birth: 28/06/1876
Place of Birth: South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia
Date of Death: 01/08/1941
Place of Death: Eastwood, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
23 Apr 1934 |
01 Aug 1941 |
7 years 3 months 10 days |
A Member of the indirectly elected Council 1934 - 1978. Date of Election 21 November 1933. A Member before reconstitution. |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
08 Sep 1932 |
22 Apr 1934 |
1 year 7 months 15 days |
Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 7 September 1932. |
Political Party Activity
Country Party, councillor in 1936
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Dairy farmer and organising secretary. Educated in public schools and All Saints Grammar, St Kilda, Victoria; farmhand at Dunolly, Victoria for some years; station manager with Goldsborough Mort and Company, for five years; also was a grain and wool correspondent; dairy farmer on selection on Horseshoe Creek near Kyogle; secretary of the Kyogle branch and Richmond River District Council Primary Producers' Union; moved to Sydney to become general secretary of the Primary Producers' Union from 1919 until 1933, general president from 1933 until 1941; member of the New South Wales Butter Stabilisation committee; Australian Dairy Council; stockowners representative of the New South Wales Veterinary Surgeons Board; committee member of 150th Anniversary Celebrations; chairman of Empire Producers' Conference in Sydney in 1938
Honours Received
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1938
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of John Dunlop, draper, and Mary Barr Brown. Married Eva Sharp on 24 May 1900 and had issue, 2 daughters and 1 son. Northern Suburbs crematorium from St Andrews Presbyterian church at Eastwood.
