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Fast facts: Edmund Barton
Personal profile
Born:
18 January 1849, Glebe, Sydney
Education:
Sydney Grammar (1859–64); University of Sydney (1865–68)
Employment:
barrister, judge
Memberships:
Freemasons; Athenaeum Club
Marriage:
28 December 1877, Newcastle, NSW
Children:
Edmund Alfred (1879); Wilfrid (1880); Jean Alice (1882); Arnold Hubert (1884); Oswald (1888); Leila Stephanie (1892)
Died:
7 January 1920, Medlow Bath, NSW
Buried:
South Head Cemetery, Sydney
Honours:
Fellow of University of Sydney Senate (1882–89, 1892–1920); Queen's Counsel (1889); Privy Councillor (1901); GCMG (1902); Order of Rising Sun (Japan) First Class (1905)
Born:
11 June 1851, London
Memberships:
Women's Federal League Sydney; Queens Club (founding president 1912–14)
Died:
23 March 1938, Sydney
Honours:
no official honours conferred
Political profile
Terms as PM:
1 January 1901 – 24 September 1903
Terms as MP:
NSW Legislative Assembly: 1879–80 (University of Sydney); 1880–82 (Wellington); 1882–87, 1891–94 (East Sydney); 1898–1900 (Hastings-Macleay)
NSW Legislative Council: 1887–91; 1897–98
House of Representatives: 9 May 1901 – 24 September 1903 (Hunter)
Portfolios:
External Affairs: 1 January 1901 – 24 September 1903
Political memberships:
Protectionist Party
After:
High Court Judge (1903–20)
Quiz facts
- Australia's first PM
- the Hansard record shows Barton spoke more than any other Member in the first House of Representatives
- second Australian to receive the GCMG – the highest knighthood available in the Empire (Sir Henry Parkes was the first)
- one of three Australian Prime Ministers to receive Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, First Class (the others were Robert Menzies and John McEwen)
- nicknamed 'Toby Tosspot' by the Bulletin