Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Gordon Brown (11 February 1885 – 12 January 1967) was a long-serving Australian politician. Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School. He was apprenticed as a pattern maker but had a range of other jobs including piano salesman and coal miner. He visited Canada where he was imprisoned for street agitation. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party. He spent time in gaol in Queensland. He was a member of the Brisbane Trades Hall Council, and was
Mildred Gordon (politician) Mildred Gordon (politician) Mildred Gordon ("née" Fellerman; 24 August 1923 – 8 April 2016) was a British Labour politician. Mildred Gordon was born the daughter of Judah and Dora Fellerman in Stepney in 1923. Judah was of Dutch Jewish descent, Dora of Bessarabian Jewish family. Her father and grandfather were stallholders in Watney Market; her father also served as a member of Stepney Borough Council. She attended Betts Street and Christian Street Schools, before attending Raines School and secretarial college. She worked in a solicitor's office, from which she was unable to get release for army service in the Second