Nicholas Shehadie
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Sir Nicholas Shehadie AC, OBE |
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| 75th Lord Mayor of Sydney | |
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In office 24 September 1973 – 26 September 1975 |
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| Preceded by | David Griffin |
| Succeeded by | Leo Port |
| Personal details | |
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15 November 1926 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Political party | Independent |
| Spouse(s) | Dame Marie Bashir |
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| Early rugby days 1940s | |||
| Full name | Nicholas Michael Shehadie | ||
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| Place of birth | Coogee, New South Wales | ||
| School | Cleveland St Public School Crown St Commercial School |
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| Rugby union career | |||
| Playing career | |||
| Position | Front row/Second row | ||
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| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1942–1958 | Randwick DRUFC | 175 | |
| Provincial/State sides | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1943–1957 | New South Wales | 37 | |
| National team(s) | |||
| Years | Club / team | Caps | (points) |
| 1947–1958 | Australia | 30 | |
Sir Nicholas Michael Shehadie, AC, OBE (born 15 November 1926) is a former Lord Mayor of Sydney (1973–1975) and national representative rugby union captain, who made thirty career Test appearances for Australia between 1947 and 1958. He is an inductee into both the Australian Rugby Union Hall of Fame and the IRB Hall of Fame.
His grandfather Nicholas Shehadie was a clergyman in the Antioch Orthodox Church who migrated from Lebanon in 1910 and later became the head of that church in Australia and New Zealand. Sir Nicholas' father Michael remained in Lebanon due to the outbreak of World War I, won a scholarship to study chemistry at the University of Kiev and in the 1920s chose to migrate to Australia to join his father in Sydney's growing Lebanese community. Michael earnt a living as a chemist and shopkeeper, and having been ordained in Russia took over as the pastoral head of the Antioch Church upon the death of Nicholas senior in 1934.
Nick Shehadie was born in Coogee, New South Wales and grew up in the inner-Sydney suburb of Redfern, attending Cleveland St Public and later Crown St Commercial schools.
The young Shehadie embraced Sydney's sporting lifestyle and joined the Coogee Surf Club where many of the surfers were avid rugby players, Keith and Colin Windon among them. He joined the Randwick Rugby Club and was first picked as a replacement in first grade when he was still aged fifteen. He made his first representative appearance for New South Wales against a Combined Services side at age sixteen. In 1947 he appeared in a New South Wales XV against New Zealand and then made his debut for Australia in the final Test against those same touring All Blacks.
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