Gordon Brown (Australian politician) Senate, and from 1950 until his retirement, Brown was the sole Father. He died in 1967. 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
Thomas Gordon (Australian politician) he was a United Australia Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was knighted in 1938. Gordon died at Point Piper in 1949. Thomas Gordon (Australian politician) Sir Thomas Stewart Gordon (26 April 1882 – 5 July 1949) was an Australian politician. He was born in Ardrossan in South Australia grazier William Gordon and Alice Wicks. He was a businessman who settled in Sydney in 1903, where he worked for Birt and Company. In 1909 he married Victoria Fisher, with whom he had three daughters. He spent three years in Wellington in New Zealand before becoming a