Date of Birth: 28/05/1918
Place of Birth: Forest Lodge, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 13/05/1977
Place of Death: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
| Member for Drummoyne |
13 Feb 1971 |
19 Oct 1973 |
2 years 8 months 7 days |
|
| Member for Drummoyne |
24 Feb 1968 |
13 Jan 1971 |
2 years 10 months 21 days |
|
| Member for Drummoyne |
01 May 1965 |
23 Jan 1968 |
2 years 8 months 24 days |
|
| Member for Drummoyne |
03 Mar 1962 |
31 Mar 1965 |
3 years 29 days |
|
| Member for Leichhardt |
21 Mar 1959 |
05 Feb 1962 |
2 years 10 months 16 days |
|
| Member for Leichhardt |
03 Mar 1956 |
16 Feb 1959 |
2 years 11 months 14 days |
|
| Member for Leichhardt |
20 Mar 1954 |
06 Feb 1956 |
1 year 10 months 18 days |
|
| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
20 Mar 1954 |
19 Oct 1973 |
19 years 7 months |
|
Political Party Activity
Australian Labor Party (ALP). Leichhardt branch, federal and state electorate councils.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Ledgerkeeper. Educated at St Fiacre's Convent, Leichhardt, and Patrician Brothers, Forest Lodge; undertook a commercial course at business college; ledgerkeeper for Tooheys Limited, chief clerk when elected to Parliament; councillor of Federated Clerks' Union, New South Wales Branch; delegate to Labor Council of New South Wales and Australian Council of Trades Union; active in Leichhardt Red Cross Society; Police Boys Club; Catholic Hibernian Society; Holy Name Choral Society; St Vincent de Paul Society
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of John Patrick Coady, carter, and Annie Maria Foley. Unmarried. Roman Catholic. Burial at Roman Catholic Cemetery from St Fiacre's Roman Catholic Church at Leichhardt.
Additional Information
Personal papers in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: 1.
Reginald Francis John Coady - papers ca., 1953 - 1973 (MLMSS 3614); 2 .
Reginald Francis John Coady - further papers ca., 1946 - 1977 (MLMSS 7330);
photographs in the PICMAN Database.
