Members’ biographical register

David Grayden

House

MLA

Party

Independent Liberal

Date first elected

25 March 1950

Year Retired/Resigned

1953

Electorate(s)

Nedlands

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLA Nedlands 25 March 1950–14 February 1953 (Independent Liberal)
Contested Guildford-Midland 13 March 1948 (endorsed Liberal), Nedlands 14 February 1953 (Liberal), 17 April 1956 (Independent Liberal)

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

9 June 2003

Cause of death

Place of death

Longueville Private Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Cemetery

Cremated Palmdale Crematorium, Ourimbah

Arrived in WA

Occupation

Teacher and businessperson

Employment History

Junior clerk in 1941 Student 1946–1948 and in 1953
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 23 July 1941 served in Middle East, Northern Territory, New Guinea with 2/8th Battalion, promoted Sergeant 6 September 1945
Discharged 20 December 1945
Director of Winterbottom Motors 1947–1958
Civil servant, clerk in Chief Secretary Department 1949
Company director and businessman, North-West General Agencies 1955–1958, Kitchen Aluminium Company 1957–1958
Sales manager Yeoman Sales, building company in New South Wales 1959–1960
High school teacher in New South Wales and Western Australia 1961–1984
In Western Australia taught at Kwinana High School April 1969–April 1970, John Curtin Senior High School December 1970–1971 and Melville High School 1971

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Lived in United Kingdom 1925–1928, Victoria 1929–1937, returned to Western Australia 1937
In Europe from April–August 1970
Retired May 1984, lived in Saint Hubert’s Island and then spent last years at Erina, New South Wales

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 77.

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