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
Gordon Boyd variety show) on Channel 10. In later years, Boyd made several acting appearances on Australian drama series including "A Country Practice" in 1981 and 1984, and "All Saints" in 2002 and 2003. Gordon Boyd Gordon William Boyd (26 December 1922 – 8 October 2009) was an English actor of film, television and musical theatre as well as a television host, and singer who hosted several television programmes in Australia during the 1960s. He worked in both his native Britain, and then in Australia after immigrating in 1964. Boyd was born Gordon William Needham at Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey,