Vernon Winstanley
{{Short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable
| name = Vernon Winstanley
| honorific-suffix =
| image = Vernon Winstanley - Queensland politician.jpg
| caption = Vernon Winstanley - December 1909
| constituency_AM1 = Charters Towers
| assembly1 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start1 = 5 February 1908
| term_end1 = 27 April 1912
| predecessor1 = Joe Millican
| successor1 = Robert Williams
| alongside1 = John Mullan
| constituency_AM2 = Queenton
| assembly2 = Queensland Legislative
| term_start2 = 27 April 1912
| term_end2 = 11 June 1932
| predecessor2 = New seat
| successor2 = Seat abolished
| alongside2 =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1861|10|10|df=y}}
| birth_place = Pilley, Yorkshire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1938|1|10|1864|10|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
| restingplace = Balmoral Cemetery
| birthname = Vernon Winstanley
| nationality = English Australian
| party = Labor
| otherparty =
| spouse = Sarah Kate Brookes (m.1890 d.1940)
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Vernon Winstanley (10 October 1861 – 10 January 1938) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015| url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=3483434897|access-date= 6 March 2016}}
Early days
Winstanley was born in Pilley, Yorkshire, to parents Thomas Winstanley and his wife Jane (née Wells). He was educated in Pilley and before the age of twelve was working in a coal mine. He came to Australia while still a young man and settled in Charters Towers where he took a leading part in worker's organisations.[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39743670/1977511 Death of Mr. V. Winstanley] — The Courier Mail. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
Political career
In 1900, Winstanley was a councilor on the Charters Towers Shire Council and in 1908, standing for the Labour Party, he won the seat of Charters Towers in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He moved to the seat of Queenton in 1912. He held Queenton for the next twenty years until retiring in 1932.
During his time in state politics he was Government Whip from 1915 until 1929.
Personal life
On 5 February 1890, Winstanley married Sarah Kate Brookes and together had one son and six daughters. He died at St Martin's Hospital, Brisbane, in 1938 and his funeral proceeded from the Morningside Methodist Church to the Balmoral Cemetery.[http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/39743480/1977494 Funeral Notices] — The Courier Mail. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
Street name
A number of street names in the Brisbane suburb of Carina Heights are identical to the surnames of former Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. One of these is Winstanley Street.
References
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{{s-ttl |title= Member for Charters Towers|years=1908–1912|alongside=John Mullan}}
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{{s-ttl |title= Member for Queenton|years=1912–1932|}}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly