Edward Guye Explained

Edward Guye
Office:Minister for Transport
Premier:Thomas Hollway
Term Start:15 December 1949
Term End:27 June 1950
Predecessor:Thomas Hollway
Successor:Herbert Hyland
Constituency Am2:Polwarth
Assembly2:Victorian Legislative
Term Start2:2 November 1940
Term End2:18 April 1958
Predecessor2:Allan McDonald
Successor2:Tom Darcy
Birth Date:12 November 1887
Birth Place:Brentford, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death Place:Winchelsea, Victoria, Australia
Restingplace:Winchelsea Cemetery
Nationality:Australian
Party:Country Party
Liberal and Country Party
Relations:Denis Guye (brother)
Allegiance:Australia
Branch:Australian Imperial Force
Serviceyears:1914–1918
Rank:Corporal
Unit:8th Battalion
Battles:Gallipoli Campaign

Edward Fritz Guye (12 November 1887 – 4 July 1960) was an Australian politician who sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1940 to 1958.

Guye was born in Brentford, England, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover. His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London.[1] His father died in 1901 and Guye emigrated to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. He enlisted in the AIF on 2 September 1914, and was sent to Europe in October. He returned to Australia in 1916.[2]

In 1940, Guye was elected as Country Party representative for the Electoral district of Polwarth in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. In March 1949, Guye was one of six Country MPs to defect to the Liberal and Country Party established by Thomas Hollway as the Victorian division of the Liberal Party. In December 1949, he became Minister of Transport and a Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works.[3]

Guye's brother Denis Guye, who remained in England, was an Olympic rower.

Notes and References

  1. British Census 1891
  2. Web site: Australian ANZACS in the Great War 1914–1918 . 16 November 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604204546/http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=121803 . 4 June 2011 . dead.
  3. http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1949/V/general/1117.pdf Government Gazette 1949