biography
| name: |
Baillieu, William Lawrence
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pronunciation:
[baylyoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1859–1936)
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| biography:
| Businessman, born in Queenscliff, Victoria, SE Australia. He gained an interest in the London Bank of Australia, and invested in lead and zinc extraction at Broken Hill, New South Wales. A member of the Legislative Council of Victoria (1901–22), he was involved in most significant business developments of the period and was a founder of the Melbourne newspaper The Herald. His son, Clive Latham Baillieu (1889–1967), became 1st Baron Baillieu of Sefton in 1953. |
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