Alfred Deakin
Info Report
Family
Spouse: Pattie Brown
Daughters: Vera Deakin, Ivy Deakin and Stella Deakin
Life
Alfred Deakin
(1856-1919), barrister, journalist and prime minister, was born on 3 August 1856 at Collingwood, Melbourne, his father was born in Towcester, Northhamptonshire, England and his mother was born in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales.
His Occupations Were
Autobiographer/memoirist
Barrister
Contemporary-affairs commentators
Federationist
Irrigationist
Journalist
Land Speculator
Liberal/Conservative Politician
Member of Lower House
Newspaper Editor
Opposition Leader
Prime Minister
Protectionist Politician
Spiritualist
Deakin's Part in Federation
Although Federation had been an idea within the Australian colonies for some fifty years prior to Deakin's involvement in politics, it seems to have been the 1887 Colonial Conference in London that galvanized his interest. This unwieldy assemblage of 121 representatives of the British Government and her colonies included two or more representatives each from the six disunited Australian colonies.
Glossary
Galvanized: to stimulate by or as if by a galvanic current.
unwieldy: Tough