Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Clive Stoneham | |
Honorific-Suffix: | OBE |
Nationality: | Australian |
Office1: | Leader of the Opposition of Victoria Elections: 1961, 1964, 1967 |
Term Start1: | 7 October 1958 |
Term End1: | 15 May 1967 |
Premier1: | (Sir) Henry Bolte |
Deputy1: | Denis Lovegrove |
Predecessor1: | Ernie Shepherd |
Successor1: | Clyde Holding |
Office2: | Leader of the Labor Party in Victoria |
Term Start2: | 7 October 1958 |
Term End2: | 15 May 1967 |
Deputy2: | Denis Lovegrove |
Predecessor2: | Ernie Shepherd |
Successor2: | Clyde Holding |
Office3: | Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Midlands |
Term Start3: | 10 November 1945 |
Term End3: | 1 April 1970 |
Predecessor3: | Seat created |
Successor3: | Les Shilton |
Office4: | Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Maryborough and Daylesford |
Term Start4: | 28 November 1942 |
Term End4: | 1 October 1945 |
Predecessor4: | George Frost |
Successor4: | Seat abolished |
Birth Date: | 12 April 1909 |
Birth Place: | Maryborough, Victoria, Australia |
Birthname: | Clive Philip Stoneham |
Party: | Labor Party |
Spouse: | Maisie Chesterfield (m. 1930) |
Occupation: | Railways clerk |
Clive Philip Stoneham, OBE (12 April 1909 – 3 July 1992) was an Australian politician. He was an ALP member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for over 27 years from November 1942 to April 1970, representing the electorates of Maryborough and Daylesford (1942–1945) and Midlands (1945–1970). From 1958 to 1967 he was Opposition Leader; he lost the elections of 1961, 1964 and 1967 to the incumbent Liberal Premier Sir Henry Bolte.
Stoneham married Maisie Chesterfield in 1930.[1]
His mother was the pioneer New Zealand unionist Ada Florence Whitehorn, and his father John Stoneham, a piano tuner.
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