Date of Birth: 26/04/1882
Place of Birth: Ardrossan, South Australia, Australia
Date of Death: 05/07/1949
Place of Death: Point Piper, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
14 Sep 1932 |
22 Apr 1934 |
1 year 7 months 9 days |
Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 13 September 1932. |
Political Party Activity
United Australia Party (UAP)
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Businessman. Educated at Broughton, Victoria and Commercial College in Adelaide; on leaving school joined George Willis and Company in Fremantle, Western Australia. Arrived in Sydney in 1903, joined Birt and Company Limited in 1908; transferred to Wellington in New Zealand for three years; returned to Sydney as a shipping manager; appointed as a director to succeed Sir Owen Cox as managing director and chairman from 1929 until 1948; chairman of Darling Island Stevedoring and Lighterage Company Limited in Sydney and Newstead Wharves and Stevedoring Company Limited in Brisbane; Australian director of Federal Steam Navigation Company Limited, London; director of Bellambi Coal Company Limited, Cockatoo Dock and Engineering Company Limited in Australia, General Insurance Company Limited, Sydney Exchange Company; Ready Mixed Concrete Limited; Australian Packers Corporation Limited; Lapstone Hotel Limited; chairman of Overseas Transport Association from 1929 until 1934; member of Shipping Control Board and Australian representative of British Ministry of Shipping from 1939 until 1945, chairman of Allied Consultative Shipping Council; councillor of Sydney Chamber of Commerce in 1937; vice president of Japan-Australia Society; chairman of New South Wales Corps of Commissionaires; New South Wales chairman of King George's Fund for Sailors; president of Australian merchant Seaman's Relief Fund; president of Adult Deaf and Dumb Society; committee member of Industrial Blind Institute and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Auxiliary.
Honours Received
Knighted in 1938
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Alderman at Mosman from 1925 until 1928.
Personal
Son of William Gordon ,grazier, and Alice Wicks. Married Victoria Fisher in 1909 and had issue, 3 daughters. Presbyterian. Funeral at Northern Suburbs crematorium from St Stephen's Presbyterian Church in Macquarie Street, Sydney.
