Gordon Webber (politician) Gordon Webber (politician) Gordon Charles Webber (6 January 1885 – 4 June 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in Richmond to carpenter Henry Moore Webber and Harriett Bastin. He attended state school in Collingwood and then worked as a saddler. He eventually became a wickerworker, and served as president of the Wickerworkers' Union. On 6 February 1915 he married Doris Edna Brown, with whom he had one son; he would later remarry Maud Glenister on 12 January 1922 and have a further three children. During World War I he served with the 4th Light Horse as a stretcher-bearer.
Samuel Gordon (Australian politician) in trade between Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales. In 1840 Gordon established a large store in Liverpool, founded a brewery and acquired 50,000 acres of pastoral land on the Murrumbidgee. In 1848, Gordon sold his assets in Liverpool at a great profit and became a wine and spirits merchant in Sydney. During his later life, in partnership with Edward Flood, he gained control over of pastoral land in Queensland. He was also the director of a number of colonial companies including English, Scottish and Australian Bank. Gordon was involved in numerous local organisations including the Presbyterian Church, St.