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Trevor Oldham

Australian politician (1900–1953)

Field	Value
name	Trevor Oldham
image	Trevor Oldham.png
office	13th Deputy Premier of Victoria
term_start	8 November 1949
term_end	27 June 1950
premier	Thomas Hollway
predecessor	Wilfrid Kent Hughes
successor	Keith Dodgshun
office2	Attorney-General of Victoria &
Solicitor-General of Victoria
term_start2	20 November 1947
term_end2	27 June 1950
predecessor2	Bill Slater
successor2	Thomas Mitchell
birth_date
birth_place	St Kilda, Victoria
death_date
death_place	Jangipara, West Bengal, India
birthname	Trevor Donald Oldham
party	United Australia Party
Liberal Party
Liberal and Country Party
spouse	Kathleen Cooch (m. 1929)
alma_mater	University of Melbourne
profession	Solicitor

Solicitor-General of Victoria Liberal Party Liberal and Country Party Trevor Donald Oldham (10 March 1900 – 2 May 1953) was an Australian politician, who was the leader of the Liberal Party in the state of Victoria from 1952 until his death in 1953. The eldest of three sons born to Arthur and Ethel Oldham, he was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He had enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 7 November 1918, four days before the Armistice.

He married Kathleen Cooch in 1929.

Business career

Oldham graduated in law at Melbourne University in 1921, and practised as a solicitor until the weight of parliamentary duties limited his time. He was a past president of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital and a former deputy chancellor of Melbourne University.

Oldham was a director of Henry Berry & Co., Hoadley Chocolates Ltd, Ruskins Motor Bodys Ltd, and Ensign Dry Cleaners Ltd.

Political career

Oldham entered parliament in 1933 as a member of the United Australia Party. He won the seat of Boroondara and held it until the seat was divided in 1945. When the UAP was re-formed as the Liberal Party in 1945, Oldham won the seat of Malvern. He served as Attorney-General and Solicitor-General of Victoria in Thomas Hollway's first government in 1947, and also served as Deputy Premier of Victoria for eight months before the Liberals lost office to a Country Party and Labor Party alliance in 1950.

In 1951, Les Norman replaced Hollway as Liberal leader, after the party became lukewarm about Hollway's plan of reforming Victoria's malapportioned electoral boundaries. In a provocative move, Hollway contested Norman's urban-based seat of Glen Iris at the 1952 election and won. With their leader having been defeated, the Liberal Party elected Oldham as leader and Henry Bolte as deputy leader.

Death

Oldham and his wife were killed in a plane crash in India on 2 May 1953, on their way to England to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The BOAC Comet they were travelling in broke up mid-air a few minutes after leaving Calcutta (now Kolkata), amid severe thunderstorms and torrential rain.

Indian authorities arranged a communal burial in Calcutta of all the victims of the Comet crash. A memorial service was held at St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, on 6 May 1953.

The Oldhams were survived by their three children, James 10, Byrony 8 and Kristin 6.

References

References

Wright, R. "Oldham, Trevor Donald (1900–1953)".
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(4 May 1953). "Mr. Trevor Oldham: Success in business and politics". [[The Age]].
(4 May 1953). "Comet Jet Crash in "Tempest". 43 Killed: Four Australians". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
(6 May 1953). "Cathedral service for air victims". [[The Age]].
(4 May 1953). "Victorian Opposition Leader Among Jet Crash Victims". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].

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