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
John Gordon (Conservative politician) John Gordon (Conservative politician) John Edward Gordon (5 February 1850 – 19 February 1915) was a British Conservative Party politician. The eldest son of Edward Gordon, Baron Gordon of Drumearn, a senior Scottish judge and Conservative politician, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the University of Edinburgh. In 1879 he married the daughter of John Snowdon Henry, former member of parliament for South East Lancashire. They had five children. He was elected at the 1895 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Elginshire and Nairnshire, unseating the Liberal MP John Keay. He was re-elected in 1900, but