Clive Stoneham

{{Short description|Australian politician}}

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix = The Honourable

| name = Clive Stoneham

| honorific-suffix = OBE

| nationality = Australian

| image = Clive_Stoneham.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| office1 = Leader of the Opposition of Victoria
Elections: 1961, 1964, 1967

| term_start1 = 7 October 1958

| term_end1 = 15 May 1967

| premier1 = (Sir) Henry Bolte

| deputy1 = Denis Lovegrove

| predecessor1 = Ernie Shepherd

| successor1 = Clyde Holding

| office2 = Leader of the Labor Party in Victoria

| term_start2 = 7 October 1958

| term_end2 = 15 May 1967

| deputy2 = Denis Lovegrove

| predecessor2 = Ernie Shepherd

| successor2 = Clyde Holding

| office3 = Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Midlands

| term_start3 = 10 November 1945

| term_end3 = 1 April 1970

| predecessor3 = Seat created

| successor3 = Les Shilton

| office4 = Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Maryborough and Daylesford

| term_start4 = 28 November 1942

| term_end4 = 1 October 1945

| predecessor4 = George Frost

| successor4 = Seat abolished

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|4|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Maryborough, Victoria, Australia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|7|3|1909|4|12|df=y}}

| death_place =

| restingplace =

| birthname = Clive Philip Stoneham

| party = Labor Party

| spouse = Maisie Chesterfield (m. 1930)

| occupation = Railways clerk

}}

Clive Philip Stoneham, OBE (12 April 1909 – 3 July 1992) was an Australian politician. He was an ALP member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for over 27 years from November 1942 to April 1970, representing the electorates of Maryborough and Daylesford (1942–1945) and Midlands (1945–1970). From 1958 to 1967 he was Opposition Leader; he lost the elections of 1961, 1964 and 1967 to the incumbent Liberal Premier Sir Henry Bolte.

Family

Stoneham married Maisie Chesterfield in 1930.{{cite re-member|num2=1588|name=Clive Philip Stoneham |access-date=28 August 2022}}

His mother was the pioneer New Zealand unionist Ada Florence Whitehorn, and his father John Stoneham, a piano tuner.

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Category:1909 births

Category:1992 deaths

Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Category:Vice-presidents of the Board of Land and Works

Category:Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire

Category:Leaders of the opposition in Victoria (state)

Category:Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria

Category:Australian people of New Zealand descent

Category:20th-century Australian politicians

Category:Ministers for agriculture (Victoria)

Category:Ministers for water (Victoria)

Category:Ministers for transport infrastructure (Victoria)