Stanley Argyle
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The Honourable Sir Stanley Argyle KBE |
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| 32nd Premier of Victoria | |
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In office 19 May 1932 – 2 April 1935 |
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| Preceded by | Edmond Hogan |
| Succeeded by | Albert Dunstan |
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| Born | 4 December 1867 Kyneton, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 23 November 1940 (aged 72) Toorak, Melbourne, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Violet Ellen Jessie Lewis |
Sir Stanley Seymour Argyle KBE (4 December 1867 – 23 November 1940), Australian politician, was the 32nd Premier of Victoria.
He was born in Kyneton, Victoria, the son of a grazier, and was educated at Brighton Grammar School and Trinity College within the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in medicine. He also studied bacteriology at King's College London.
After further study in the United Kingdom, he went into general practice in Kew (a wealthy Melbourne suburb), and was later a pioneer of radiology in Australia. He was a member of the Kew City Council 1898–1905 and was mayor in 1903–05. During World War I he was consultant radiologist to the Australian Imperial Force in Egypt and in France, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After the war he invested in dairy farming, milk processing and citrus growing.
Argyle was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Toorak in 1920, as an independent Nationalist. He was Chief Secretary and Minister for Health in the ministries of Harry Lawson, John Allan, Alexander Peacock and William McPherson between 1923 and 1928. When McPherson resigned as leader of the Nationalist Party, Argyle was chosen to succeed him, and in 1931 the party was renamed the United Australia Party (UAP). He led the opposition to Ned Hogan's minority Australian Labor Party government, which was unable to cope with the effects of the Great Depression and was heavily defeated at the May 1932 elections.
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