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William Walter Charles (Bill) Brown (1920-2001) cabinet-maker, trade union leader and politician.
Birth: 12 December 1920 in Brunswick, Victoria, son of native-born parents William Samuel Brown, cabinetmaker, and Sarah Eileen ‘Irene’, née Ryder (1889-1938). Marriage: 5 November 1941 in St Paul’s Catholic Church, Coburg, Victoria, to Winifred Mary ‘Peg’ Boyle (1920-1999), a textile worker. They had one son and four daughters. Death: 26 June 2001 in a nursing home at Greensborough, Victoria. Religion: Catholic.
Sources
Labor Year Book, 1973; Merrifield papers, LaTrobe Library; Joan Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972 (Canberra, 1975); Drew Cottle, Brown, William Walter Charles, in Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: https://biography.senate.gov.au/brown-william-walter-charles/
'Brown, William Walter (Bill) (1920–2001)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://labouraustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/brown-william-walter-bill-32825/text40843, accessed 3 February 2023.
William Brown, by Australian Information Service, 1971
National Library of Australia, 6456752
12 December,
1920
Brunswick, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
26 June,
2001
(aged 80)
Greensborough, Victoria, Australia