Harry Turley
President of the Senate
In office
1 July 1910  8 July 1913
Preceded byAlbert Gould
Succeeded byThomas Givens
Senator for Queensland
In office
1 January 1904  30 June 1917
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for South Brisbane
In office
6 May 1893  11 March 1899
Preceded byAbraham Luya
Succeeded byAbraham Luya
In office
22 July 1899  11 March 1902
Preceded byAbraham Luya
Succeeded byAlec Lamont
Personal details
Born
Joseph Henry Lewis Turley

(1859-04-24)24 April 1859
Gloucestershire, England
Died5 June 1929(1929-06-05) (aged 70)
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Resting placeSouth Brisbane Cemetery
NationalityEnglish Australian
Political partyAustralian Labor Party
SpouseMary Smith (m.1886 d.1947)
OccupationWaterside worker

Joseph Henry Lewis Turley (24 April 1859 5 June 1929) was an English-born Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and an Australian Senator.[1][2]

Early life

Harry Turley was born in Gloucestershire on 24 April 1859. He was educated in England, after which he became a sailor. Having migrated to Australia in 1887, he became a waterside worker in Brisbane, and was President of the Wharf Laborers' Union.

Politics

1910 Labor Senate ticket, with Turley on right

In 1893, Harry Turley was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Labor member for South Brisbane,[1] serving as Home Secretary in Anderson Dawson's short-lived Labor Government in 1899.[1] In 1902 he left the Assembly,[1] and in 1903 was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for Queensland.[2]

On 1 July 1910, he was appointed President of the Senate, a position he held until 8 July 1913. He remained a Senator until his defeat in 1917.[2]

Later life

After leaving politics, Turley became a shipping master with the Queensland Harbours and Rivers Department. Turley died in 1929 and was buried in South Brisbane Cemetery.[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Browne, Geoffrey (2000). "Turley, Joseph Henry Lewis (1859–1929): Senator for Queensland, 1904–17 (Labor Party)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  3. Turley, Henry Archived 3 February 2015 at the Wayback Machine Brisbane City Council Grave Location Search. Retrieved 5 November 2011.
  4. Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2008.


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