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Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Name (FAMILY NAME, Other Names)

Whittle, Elder George

Date of Birth

8 January 1886

Place of Birth

Bowden-on-the-Hill

Date of Death

31 May 1965

Place of Death

Prospect, South Australia

Place of Burial

Enfield Memorial Park

Arrived in South Australia (date/ship etc.)

 

Lived in Prospect (dates)

Daphne Street.

Addresses/Dates in Prospect Council Area

 

Addresses/Dates outside Prospect Council Area

 

Names of houses (if any)

 

Parents

George Caleb Whittle &  Julia Anna Kutcher

Spouse(s)

Anna Harry (As Mayoress of Prospect, Mrs Annie Whittle, initiated a Prospect Women’s Service Association to help the poor and needy in the district. Born 1887.Died 1955. Buried Enfield Memorial Park.

Date(s) of Marriage(s)

29 April 1911

Place(s) of Marriage(s)

 

Children

Donald George Whittle (born 1914 died 1982 ) (completed a three years ' course in civil engineering at Adelaide Uni. with record of 27 credit passes in a total of 27 subjects in the term) Engaged to Enid Schumacher of Thorngate 30 June 1938.

Education

Educated at North Adelaide Public School

Occupation(s)

Auctioneer

Former Member of Parliament 19 Mar 1938 - 28 Apr 1944 & 8 Mar 1947 - 6 Mar 1953   House of Assembly Prospect  

Interests/Activities

   Was a keen debater and Repertory Theatre actor and was instrumental in the formation of the Prospect Band. Was also an elocutionist and judged  Rechabite elocution competitions. Was an original member of the Repertory Theatre, established at the Conservatorium by Mr. Bryceson Trehearne under the name of the Adelaide Literary Theatre, and in 1908 won a State championship for a Shakespearean recital.

 Sport-bowls. Member of Thorngate Masonic Lodge & Sons of Temperance Lodge.

Religion/Churches

 

Notes (points of interest etc.)

George Whittle Reserve, Churchill Road, Prospect named after him. Member of Municipal Tramways Trust. Vice-Patron North Adelaide Football Club. Vice-President Prospect Cricket Club. President of Mothers & Babies Health Association. Member of State Council Boy Scouts’ Association.

Local Government experience

Prospect’s first mayor in 1/7/1933 and 1949-1952 and 1953-1954. For 43 years was a Councillor (Fitzroy Ward 1922- 1932; 1937-1948) and Alderman (1948-1966).

 Chairman Prospect District Council 1/7/1933. Vice-president Suburban & District Councils’ Association. In May 1945, his suggestion of re-naming Lower North Road as Churchill Road in honour of Sir Winston Churchill was accepted by Prospect Council.

Sources of information

Living in Prospect Pauline Payne pp 4 &8.

www.geni.com/people/Elder-Whittle

MyHeritage Family Trees

www2.parliament.sa.gov.au  

Trove - The News (Adelaide, SA ) 22 June 1936 page 4

Civic Record of South Australia 1936

 

 

 

 

Principal Researcher

Kristina Barnett

 

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