125 Accomplished Old Guildfordians
Donald Cleland � 1912-1919
C . B . E . Administrator Papua New Guinea 1951- 1969 . Appointed to the Australian Imperial Force on 13 October 1939 as staff captain , 6th Divisional Artillery , Cleland arrived in the Middle East in February 1940 . He was promoted temporary major in November . For his work as deputy assistant quartermaster general , I Corps , during the campaigns in Libya , Greece and Syria in 1941 , he was appointed M . B . E . ( 1942 ) and mentioned in dispatches . He chaired the Legislative Council until 1964 and directed the introduction of the first House of Assembly elected by full adult franchise ; he restructured the public service so that it would be dominated by Papua New Guineans , paid at a rate the country could afford ; and he continued the elimination of discriminatory legislation , most obviously ending the liquor ban in 1962 . While his reports were methodical , in his diary he made quick , shrewd judgements of people and events . He was knighted in 1961 .
Arthur ' Winston ' Crane
Stirling / St George ’ s House 1954-1957
Member of the Senate for Western Australia 1990- 2002 . President of Western Australian Farmers ' Federation 1982-1989 . Senior Vice-President , National Farmers ' Federation 1987-1989 .
James Davies � Stirling House 1940-1944
Australian Rules Football Player who won the Sandover Medal and Best and Fairest for Swan Districts and was their captain in 1944 . Managed to play a few games with Carlton in the VFL before moving back to Perth to continue playing for Swan Districts and Claremont Football Club until 1953 . He was elected as vice President and President of the WAFL for ten years and then nominated as a life member .
John Day
Woodbridge House 1968-1972
Member of the Western Australian Parliament for 24 years from 1993-2017 , representing the Darling Range and Kalamunda electorates successively . Minister for Health , Culture and the Arts , Planning , Science and Innovation , Police and Emergency Services during two periods in government . Currently Chairman of the Board of the State Library of WA , member of Art Gallery of WA Board . Honorary Fellow Planning Institute of Australia . Graduate from the University of Western Australia ( Science and Dentistry ). 2016 Old Guildfordian of the Year .
Deborah Drake-Brockman � Daygirl
A mining company director and welfare worker . Upon marrying Sir John Winthrop Hackett , Deborah became known as Lady Hackett . She was a society hostess and worked strenuously for the war effort during World War I . The French government rewarded her with ‘ La Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise ’, a medal solely awarded to civilians to express gratitude by the French government to all those who , without legal or military obligation , had come to the aid of the injured , disabled , refugees , or who had performed an act of exceptional dedication in the presence of the enemy during the First World War . She edited a tome , The Australian Household Guide ( Perth , 1916 ) which purported to contain everything that an Australian housewife might want to know . Profits went to charities and a second edition in 1940 again raised large sums for the Red Cross Society . After the death of Sir Winthrop Hackett in 1916 , Lady Hackett married Sir Frank Beaumont Moulden in Adelaide in 1918 . As his lady mayoress in 1920-22 , she raised money for Adelaide charities and re-established the South Australian branch of the National Council of Women , of which she was president in 1921 , She become the first State commissioner of the Girl Guides ’ Association . In 1923 , Lady Moulden became interested in some rare Australian minerals , specifically tantalite in the Northern Territory and at Wodgina in Western Australia . She personally visited and evaluated the sites of these minerals and , by 1925 , she was convinced of the wealth tantalite could bring Australia . Lady Moulden decided it would be more advantageous to process the ore within Australia , so she moved to London in 1927 and formed Tantalite Ltd in 1932 . She found , however , that it was difficult to persuade governments to process minerals in the country of origin . Returning to Australia to live , she formed a syndicate to mine wolfram in Central Australia . In World War II her tantalum was used in developing radar . With the obvious need for the minerals , the Commonwealth government resumed Tantalite Ltd , which had taken over the wolfram mines , for the duration of the war . In 1932 the University of Western Australia had honoured its benefactor ’ s widow when the Winthrop Hall was opened by conferring on her the degree of Doctor of Laws , in absentia because of the recent death of Sir Frank Moulden . In 1936 in Melbourne , she married Basil Buller Murphy , a barrister , and she became known as Dr Buller Murphy . Dr Murphy supported the women ’ s auxiliaries of Melbourne ’ s hospitals and welfare committees . She published ‘ An Attempt to Eat the Moon ’, a book of legends of the Dordenup tribe of Aboriginals that she had known when young .
Edmund Drake-Brockman � 1897-1902
Major General , soldier , statesman and judge who served in both World One and Two . Was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for his services as Major at Gallipoli during 1915 . He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel . In 1918 he was promoted to Brigadier General and commanded the 4th brigade . After the war he was elected to the Australian Senate in 1919 as a Nationalist party representative and served until 1926 . He then worked as a federal judge .
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