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) an attempt to re-enter parliament at the 1918 Legislative Council elections, but was defeated by Archibald Sanderson in Metropolitan-Suburban Province. After leaving office, Gordon lived in the country, farming first at Namban and later at Gingin. He died in Perth in August 1943, aged 80. Gordon had married Harriet Ann Scott in 1896, with whom he had four sons and two daughters. One of his sons, Jim Gordon, won the Victoria Cross in World War II. Additionally, Gordon's older brother, Sir John Hannah Gordon, was a member of parliament in South Australia. William Gordon (Australian politician) William Beattie Gordon (20