Date of Birth: 05/12/1844
Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 14/07/1926
Place of Death: Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
26 Nov 1903 |
24 Jun 1925 |
21 years 6 months 30 days |
Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 26 November 1903 |
| Secretary for Mines |
24 Dec 1886 |
19 Jan 1887 |
27 days |
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| Vice President of Executive Council and Representative of Government |
26 Feb 1886 |
23 Dec 1886 |
9 months 28 days |
Granted retention of title of 'Honourable' for life. |
| Member of the NSW Legislative Council |
08 Sep 1885 |
19 Oct 1903 |
18 years 1 month 12 days |
Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 31 August 1885 |
Political Party Activity
Member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Senator, October - November 1903.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Medical Practitioner and Company Director. Educated at Sydney Grammar School and University of Glasgow (MB,ChM 1871). Followed pastoral pursuits before entering university. From 1875 practised medicine in Sydney. Honorary surgeon at Sydney Hospital 1873 - 1876. Honorary physician in 1882. Medical adviser to the New South Wales government 1882 - 1885. Health and immigration officer, Port Jackson. Participated in commercial and financial enterprises; President of Bank of New South Wales 1901 - 1922. Director of Colonial Sugar Refining Company. Mutual Life and Citizens Insurance Company Limited. Medical Director of Equitable Life Assurance Company Limited. Director of Australian Widows Fund. Commissioner of Colonial and Indian Exhibition 1886. President of Sydney Amateur Orchestral Society. Member of Highland Society. Royal Commissioner on Noxious Trades 1883. Member of Benevolent Society Asylum Inquiry Board 1893.
Military Service
Surgeon, 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Rifles 1872 - 1882.
Honours Received
Knighted (Kt) 1912; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) 1916.
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of Frederick Mackellar, medical practitioner and his wife Isabella Robertson. Married Marion Buckland on 9 August 1877 and had issue, 1 daughter (the poet, Dorothea Mackellar) and 3 sons. Church of England.
