Edmund Dwyer-Gray
| Edmund Dwyer-Gray | |
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| 29th Premier of Tasmania | |
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In office 11 June 1939 – 18 December 1939 |
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| Preceded by | Albert Ogilvie |
| Succeeded by | Robert Cosgrove |
| Constituency | Denison |
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| Born |
2 April 1870 Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 6 December 1945 (aged 75) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| Political party | Australian Labor Party |
| Spouse(s) | Clara Agatha Rose |
| Relations |
Sir John Gray (grandfather) Caroline Chisholm (grandmother) Edmund Dwyer Gray (father) |
| Occupation | Newspaper editor |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Edmund John Chisholm Dwyer-Gray (2 April 1870 – 6 December 1945) was an Irish-Australian politician, who was the 29th Premier of Tasmania from 11 June to 18 December 1939.
He was born Edmund John Chisholm Gray on 2 April 1870 in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Edmund Dwyer Gray, an MP in the British House of Commons. He was the maternal grandson of Caroline Chisholm, the English humanitarian renowned for her social welfare work with female immigrants to Australia. His paternal grandfather was Sir John Gray, the Irish Member of Parliament for Kilkenny City in the House of Commons, and an associate of the Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell. He was educated at the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, Scotland, and at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit school in County Kildare.
Gray first visited Australia in 1887, as he was suffering from rheumatism and hoped the climate might improve his health. He returned to Ireland shortly afterwards and joined the editorial committee of the Freeman's Journal, a nationalist newspaper of which his father and grandfather had been proprietors.
Between visits to Australia where he met and married his wife Clara, Gray continued to work on the Freeman's Journal which became involved in the Irish political scandal and leadership crisis when Charles Stewart Parnell married a divorced woman. Despite his family's support for Parnell, Gray altered the Journal's policy to compete with an anti-Parnell paper, causing some controversy and contributing to his decision to migrate to Australia permanently.
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