Graham Waddell

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Sir Charles Graham Waddell {{post-nominals|country=AUS|KBE}} (7 January 1877 – 7 April 1960) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Orange to bank manager Colonel George Walker Waddell and Fanny Elizabeth Sharpe.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article252371254 |title=Obituary Colonel George Walker Waddell |newspaper=The Leader |date=26 May 1908 |access-date=26 September 2022 |page=3 |via=Trove}} He attended Sydney Grammar School and worked as a bookkeeper and overseer near Adelong before becoming a grazier at Bethungra. He was president of the Graziers' Association from 1925 to 1928 and chairman of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council from 1925 to 1935. In 1927 he was knighted.{{Cite It's an Honour |ausawardid=1082200 |recipient=Mr Charles Graham Waddell |award=The Order of the British Empire - Knights Commander (Civil) (Imperial) |date=1927-06-03 |access-date=2020-11-27}}

In 1936 he was elected to a 12 year term as a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223056929 |title=Candidates declared to be elected Members of the Legislative Council |newspaper=Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales |issue=204 |date=15 December 1936 |access-date=25 November 2020 |page=5134 |via=Trove}} serving from 1937 until 1949.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2794701 |title=Nominations for Legislative Council |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=16 March 1949 |access-date=27 November 2020 |page=3 |via=Trove}}

Waddell died at Potts Point in 1960 (aged {{age in years|1877|1|7|1960|4|7}}).{{cite NSW Parliament |title=The Hon. Sir Charles Graham Waddell, KBE (1877-1960) |id=1306 |former=Yes |access-date=22 May 2019}}

His uncle Thomas Waddell was also a member of Legislative Assembly and briefly Premier,{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=A R |last=Buck |title =Waddell, Thomas (1854? - 1940) |id2=waddell-thomas-1626 |accessdate=2020-11-27}} and his cousin John Waddell was the member for Waverley in the Legislative Assembly from 1932 until 1939.{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr John William Waddell (1891–1939) |id=1516 |former=Yes |accessdate=15 June 2019}}