Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott

Appointed: 29 March 1937 to 1 July 1946

Date of birth: 4 May 1886

Place of birth: North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Parents: Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (Chief Stipendiary Magistrate of Sydney) and Marion (aka May) (née Lydiard)

Education: The King's School, Parramatta, New South Wales

Spouse: Hilda Gertrude (née Harnett) - married 24 October 1916,

Children: 2 daughters

Employment history

1895 - Ran away from school to be a jackeroo near Gunnedah
Stockman at Mitchell and Roma Queensland
Cane-cutter at Pleystowe Mill near Mackay Queensland
Mounted Constable New South Wales Police Force
1908 to 1914 - Confidential Clerk Police HQ Brisbane
1914 - Enlisted Australian Imperial Force
1914 - Private, Australian Naval & Military Expeditionary Force
Served in German New Guinea.
Transferred to 12th Australian Light Horse Regiment
Service at Gallipoli (as Corporal then commissioned) Sinai (wounded-in-action), Palestine, Syria
Demobilised 1918 with rank of Captain
1919 to 1937 - Pastoralist, established and managed "Echo Hills" near Tamworth New South Wales
1925 to 1929 and 1931 to 1937 - Member for Gwydir, NSW House of Representatives
1925 to 1928 - Minister for Home and Territories
1928 to 1929 - Minister for Home Affairs
1937 - Appointed Administrator of the Northern Territory and Commissioner of Police
Dismissed by ordinary letter - left Darwin 26 May 1946

Honours and awards

Subsequent career: Settled on "Murrulla", Wingen, New South Wales

Memorials: Abbott Crescent, Darwin and Australia's Frontier Province - died 30 April 1975 in Darling Point