Harry Hedditch

Harold Read "Harry" Hedditch (13 March 1893 – 23 May 1974) was an Australian politician.

Hedditch was born in Bridgewater to farmer William Forward Hedditch and Marian Nunn Jones.[1] He became a bookkeeper and typist, and also ran the family farm at Portland from 1918. He became a real estate agent and also ran a garage. On 28 August 1921 he married Amy Elizabeth Gillies, with whom he had two children; he would later marry a second time, to Bernice Hope Boddington.[1] He served on Portland Borough Council from 1933 to 1943 and was mayor from 1941 to 1943.[1]

In 1943 Hedditch was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Port Fairy and Glenelg;[2] a Country Party member, he was an unendorsed candidate but joined the parliamentary party. His seat was abolished in 1945 and he was defeated running for Portland.[1] He was elected for Portland in 1947,[2] and in 1949 resigned from the Country Party to join the Liberal and Country Party. He was defeated a second time on 12 May 1950.[2] Hedditch died at Geelong East in 1974.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Hedditch, Harold Read". Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b c d "Harold Read Hedditch". Members of Parliament. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
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