Archdale Parkhill
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The Honourable Sir Archdale Parkhill KCMG |
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| Member of the Australian Parliament for Warringah |
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In office 21 May 1927 – 23 October 1937 |
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| Preceded by | Granville Ryrie |
| Succeeded by | Percy Spender |
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| Born |
27 August 1878 Paddington, Sydney |
| Died | 2 October 1947 (aged 69) Sydney |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Nationalist (1927–31) UAP (1931–37) |
| Spouse(s) | Florence Ruth Watts |
| Occupation | Alderman |
Sir Robert Archdale Parkhill KCMG (27 August 1878 – 2 October 1947) was an Australian politician. He was born at Paddington in Sydney to Robert Parkhill, a stonemason, and Isabella, née Chisholm. He attended Paddington and Waverley Public schools and became known as an excellent sportsman, participating in cricket, fencing, boxing and horse riding. He began work as a clerk but eventually became alderman of Waverley Municipal Council from 1904–09. He became secretary of the Liberal and Reform Association of New South Wales in 1904, and on 9 May 1906 married Florence Ruth Watts at Woollahra.
Influenced by his mentor Joseph Carruthers, Parkhill reformed the Commonwealth Liberal Party, making it and its successor, the Nationalist Party, extremely efficient political machines. He directed nineteen Federal and State election and referendum campaigns between 1904 and 1928, presiding over the introduction of new campaign techniques such as film and radio. Despite his professionalism, he was also unscrupulous, being sued for libel in 1914. His most successful campaign was for the 1925 Federal election, when he combined fear of Bolshevism, with which the opposition Labor Party was sometimes associated, with traditional Australian aspirations of home ownership.
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