Sir
William Lyne represented Albury in State or Federal
Parliament
for about 30 years. Sir William Lyne was
born
on the 6th April, 1844 at Great Swan Port, Van
Diemen's
Land. He was the eldest son of John Lyne,
farmer
and later member of the Tasmanian House of
Assembly.
His first wife was Lillias Cross Carmichael,
(before
she was married, she was Miss Hume).
Mr
Lyne married Martha Coates 'Pattie' Shaw at
Swansea
on 29th June 1870. In1875 he moved to N.S.W.
and
leased (rented) Bowna, near Albury, a sheep-run
of
about 5000 acres, and part of Cumberoona Station.
He
quickly became a community leader;playing in the
cricket
team, joining the committee of the Albury and
Border
Pastoral Agricultural and Horticultural Society
and
officiating at the local races.
Mr
Lyne became a member of the NSW
Legislative
Assembly in November 1880,
and
Premier of NSW in September 1899.
He
was invited to form the first Commonwealth
Government,
although this did not eventuate.
He
was elected for the Federal seat of Hume at
the
first Commonwealth elections. Lyne was
one
of thekey political figures in an eventful
thirty-year
period in Australia's political history.
Australia's
first Prime Minister
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