Frederick Brawn

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Frederick William Brawn (21 November 1857 – 24 July 1936) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Creswick to storekeeper James Brawn and Sarah Pearce. He attended Creswick Grammar School and became a commission agent in Bloomfield and then a shareholder in Ballarat. On 27 April 1886 he married Alice Vipond; later, following her death in 1917, he married Florence Reddin on 14 June 1919. He was also later a farmer at Dowling Forest. He served on Ballarat City Council from 1904 to 1919, and was twice mayor (1907–08, 1915–16). In 1907 he won a by-election for Wellington Province in the Victorian Legislative Council. A non-Labor member, he later joined the Liberal, Nationalist and United Australia parties. He was a minister without portfolio from March to July 1924 and again from July to December 1929. He retired in 1934 and died in Ballarat in 1936.{{cite web

| last = Parliament of Victoria

| author-link = Parliament of Victoria

| title = Brawn, Frederick William

| work = re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851

| publisher = Parliament of Victoria

| date = 2001

| url = http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=923

| access-date = 9 January 2016}}