Bill Lamb
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The Honourable Bill Lamb |
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| Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 28 May 1947 – 20 April 1959 |
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| Preceded by | Daniel Clyne |
| Succeeded by | Ray Maher |
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5 January 1889 Nyngan, New South Wales |
| Died | 8 January 1964 (aged 75) Burwood, New South Wales |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party, Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist) |
William Henry Lamb (5 January 1889 – 8 January 1964) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1938 until 1962 and, variously, a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the Lang Labor Party. He was the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1947 and 1959.
Lamb was born in Nyngan, New South Wales. He was the son of a coachbuilder, was educated to elementary level at state schools. From the age of 12 he worked as a grocer's boy and then as a coalminer. At age 19 he became a teacher in NSW rural schools and studied accountancy in his spare time. He was an office manager after 1927. A protégé of Jack Lang, Lamb was an alderman on Auburn Council between 1932 and 1939 and was the mayor in 1935.
At the 1938 state election, Lamb was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the Labor member for the new seat of Granville. He defeated the sitting United Australia Party member, Claude Fleck. Lamb retained the seat for the next 7 elections but lost Labor Party pre-selection prior to the 1962 state election and retired. He was a supporter of Lang's Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist) during the party split of 1941 but did not support the later manifestations of Lang Labor.
Lamb succeeded Daniel Clyne as the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly after the 1947 election and retained the position for 12 years. The parliamentary web site states that he maintained firm control over the assembly and was frequently criticized by the opposition for inflexibility, unnecessary interjections from the chair and bias towards the government.
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