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
William Gordon (Australian politician) William Gordon (Australian politician) William Beattie Gordon (20 October 1862 – 12 August 1943) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1901 to 1911. Gordon was born in Gawler, South Australia, to Margaret (née Leonard) and James Gordon. His parents were originally from Renfrewshire, Scotland, and his father was a Free Church of Scotland minister. Initially working as a clerk for the Bank of Adelaide, Gordon later spent a period living in the south-east of the colony, working as a jackaroo and later as a farmer near Bordertown. He moved to