Richard Warren (Australian politician)

Richard Warren
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Murrumba
In office
16 March 1918 – 11 June 1932
Preceded byJames Forsyth
Succeeded byFrank Nicklin
Personal details
Born
Richard James Warren

(1869-03-12)12 March 1869
Barkstead, Victoria, Australia
Died5 August 1940(1940-08-05) (aged 71)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resting placeToowong Cemetery
Political partyCountry and Progressive National Party
Other political
affiliations
National, Country Party, United
Spouse(s)Louisa Jeffery (m.1898 d.1927), Maude Ellen Parry (m.1928)
OccupationWheat farmer

Richard James Warren (12 March 1869 – 5 August 1940) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]

He was born at Barkstead, a small town near Ballarat in Victoria, the son of Humphrey Warren and his wife Fanny (née Eldridge). He was a wheat farmer and pastoralist in New South Wales and Chinchilla in Queensland. In 1915 he was with the 26th Battalion of the First Australian Imperial Force and was discharged due to sickness during the Gallipoli Campaign.[1]

Warren married Louisa Jeffery[2] in 1898 in Sydney.[1] Louisa died in 1927[2] and the next year he married Maude Ellen Parry in Brisbane.[1] Warren died in Brisbane in 1940 and was buried in the Toowong Cemetery.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b c d "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b Family history researchQueensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Family Notices". The Courier-mail. No. 2161. Queensland, Australia. 6 August 1940. p. 18. Retrieved 6 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ Deceased Search — Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 6 June 2016.

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