Edward Guye

{{Short description|Australian politician (1887–1960)}}

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|name = Edward Guye

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|office = Minister of Transport

|premier = Thomas Hollway

|term_start = 15 December 1949

|term_end = 27 June 1950

|predecessor = Thomas Hollway

|successor = Herbert Hyland

|constituency_AM2 = Polwarth

|assembly2 = Victorian Legislative

|term_start2 = 2 November 1940

|term_end2 = 18 April 1958

|predecessor2 = Allan McDonald

|successor2 = Tom Darcy

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|birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|11|12|df=y}}

|birth_place = Brentford, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|7|4|1887|11|12|df=y}}

|death_place = Winchelsea, Victoria, Australia

|restingplace = Winchelsea Cemetery

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|nationality = Australian

|party = Country Party
Liberal and Country Party

|spouse = {{marriage|Violet Wenden|23 July 1906}}

|relations = Denis Guye (brother)

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|allegiance = Australia

|branch = Australian Imperial Force

|serviceyears = 1914–1918

|rank = Corporal

|unit = 8th Battalion

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Edward Fritz Guye (12 November 1887 – 4 July 1960) was an Australian politician who sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1940 to 1958.

Guye was born in Brentford, England, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover. His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London.British Census 1891 His father died in 1901 and Guye emigrated to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. He enlisted in the AIF on 2 September 1914, and was sent to Europe in October. He returned to Australia in 1916.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=121803 |title=Australian ANZACS in the Great War 1914–1918 |access-date=16 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604204546/http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=121803 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |url-status=dead}}

In 1940, Guye was elected as Country Party representative for the Electoral district of Polwarth in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. In March 1949, Guye was one of six Country MPs to defect to the Liberal and Country Party established by Thomas Hollway as the Victorian division of the Liberal Party. In December 1949, he became Minister of Transport and a Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works.[http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1949/V/general/1117.pdf Government Gazette 1949]

Guye's brother Denis Guye, who remained in England, was an Olympic rower.